Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Courtesy of Rabbi HechtAs the fate of dozens of civilians held hostage by Hamas gunmen hangs in the balance in the Gaza Strip, experts say the rescue operations that will be undertaken to save the captives will likely be just as unprecedented as the mass hostage-taking in Israel—and inevitably very messy.“This is absolutely unprecedented… You have something like 150 people that are being held as human shields,” said Jeffrey Feltman, a fo
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Sylvie Arnaud's first feeling when she learnt her son Louis had been detained in Iran in September last year was sheer incredulity, followed by a raging sense of injustice and impotence."We don't know how long this will last, we don't know what the Iranians are waiting for and we will probably never know," she told AFP.
Louis Arnaud, described by his family as a passionate traveller who simply wanted to see the world, is one of four French nationals held in prison in Iran.
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