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July 1, 2021

Don’t Give Hamas Another Dime Until It Releases the Bodies of Captured Israelis

A mother’s plea.

In 2014—only two hours after a U.S.-backed ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect—Hamas operatives abducted an IDF officer named Hadar Goldin and killed two of his fellow soldiers. Goldin is presumed dead, but the Gaza-based terrorist group refuses to release his remains. On Tuesday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the UN, met with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin in New York, where they were joined by Leah Goldin, Hadar’s mother. She pleads with President Biden to affirm Jerusalem’s demand that Hamas return her son’s body, along with that of Oron Shaul, who was also killed in the 2014 conflict:

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