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11 Shevat 5785
February 8 2025
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UPDATE 11:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
The latest three hostages–Ohad Ben Ami, Or Levy, Eli Sharabi–have been released and are in Israeli hands, and all of Israel is outraged at their condition which nearly resembles the gaunt emaciated look of people who might have come out from a concentration camp:
You will note that two of them had to be held up—and presumably this was after they had been fattened up by Hamas for several weeks before being released.
One can only imagine the tortures that our remaining live hostages-especially soldiers–have undergone and are undergoing.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and all the other Palestinian barbaric terrorists are nothing but sadistic animals.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.