Hamas Kills Six Israeli Hostages and Threatens More Executions

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Israel recovers the bodies of six hostages taken on Oct. 7, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, amid new calls both to eliminate Hamas and to offer concessions to obtain a deal with the terrorist group. Plus, Kamala Harris plays up her old summer job at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant, but her administration's policies would make that kind of employment less available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	Hamas kills six hostages taken on October 7th, including a 23-year-old U.S. citizen,
0:30.8	prompting renewed calls both for the elimination of the terrorist group as well as for
0:35.9	Israel to cut some kind of ceasefire deal with it.
0:38.7	Plus the post-Labor day celebration of Mc Jobs, including Kamala Harris's.
0:44.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:48.4	We are joined today by my colleagues,
0:50.6	Elliot Kaufman and Bill McGurn.
0:53.0	Israeli forces over the weekend recover the bodies of six Israeli hostages
0:58.0	from a tunnel under the Gaza city of Rafa,
1:01.0	four men and two women whom Israel said had been shot at close range two or three days
1:07.8	before being found, according to a forensic examination.
1:11.9	They included a U.S US citizen, Hirsch Goldberg, Poland.
1:15.4	Hamas also now saying today, according to the journal's news story, that it may execute
1:20.3	more hostages if Israel doesn't agree to its ceasefire terms.
1:26.0	This from the Journal's news story, the implied threat could be an attempt to widen the
1:29.8	riffs in Israeli society over the captives and increased pressure on Israeli Prime Minister
1:36.3	Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire deal.
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