ndful of different Palestinian militant organizations used mostly airplane hijackings to take big groups of Israelis hostage, and to demand prisoner releases and prisoner exchanges and other concessions from the Israeli government, says Northwestern University political scientist Danielle Gilbert, a
Date: Oct 31, 2023
Category: World
Source: Google
About 30 children were taken hostage by Hamas militants. Their families wait in agony
But taking children hostage in a war is almost never done, said Danielle Gilbert, assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, who has interviewed hundreds of captors and hostages in different countries. The reasoning is brutal: Abductors see value in live hostages, typically