{"id":10480,"date":"2023-10-23T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T01:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/blinken-us-has-pretty-strong-idea-that-some-of-missing-americans-being-held-hostage-by-hamas\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T01:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T01:46:40","slug":"blinken-us-has-pretty-strong-idea-that-some-of-missing-americans-being-held-hostage-by-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/blinken-us-has-pretty-strong-idea-that-some-of-missing-americans-being-held-hostage-by-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken: US has \u2018pretty strong idea\u2019 that some of missing Americans being held hostage by Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">With 10 Americans still unaccounted for more than two weeks after Hamas\u2019 massacre in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the terrorist group is believed to be holding at least some of them hostage in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Blinken addressed the missing Americans during an appearance on NBC\u2019s \u2018Meet the Press,\u2019 saying that the U.S. is still uncertain whether some of the unaccounted for are dead, with their bodies yet to be recovered, though a \u2018significant number\u2019 are believed to be held hostage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve got 10 unaccounted for Americans,\u2019 Blinken said. \u2018We believe that some significant number are hostages.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He continued, reiterating that \u2018we have a pretty strong idea that some number of the 10 at least are being held in Gaza by Hamas.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed in the war \u2013 mostly civilians slain during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Hamas is also believed to have taken more than 200 people hostage during its deadly incursion, which Blinken described as a slaughter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018But, you know, what\u2019s happening is \u2013 and it just underscores the horror \u2013 Israel continues to discover, uncover people, who were killed, who were slaughtered, and I use that term very advisedly, slaughtered, on Oct. 7,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two American nationals\u00a0held captive by Hamas\u00a0were released Friday. They were identified as Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie Raanan, who originally were taken by Hamas from the Nahal Oz kibbutz in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Video of President Biden speaking with both the mother and daughter by phone was posted to social media on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re going to get them all out, God willing,\u2019 Biden said in the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><\/div>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 10 Americans still unaccounted for more than two weeks after Hamas\u2019 massacre in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the terrorist group is believed to be holding at least some of them hostage in Gaza. Blinken addressed the missing Americans during an appearance on NBC\u2019s \u2018Meet the Press,\u2019 saying that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}