and the number of prisoners freed to 117. let s take a closer look at some of the hostages released by hamas today. among the group are sisters, dafna and ela elyakim. they were attacked at their home in kibbutz nir oz. the girls were part of a family group whose capture was live streamed by the attackers themselves. also for the first time, an american israeli citizen was released earlier today. abigail idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october seven attacks. her great aunt and cousin said they hoped and prayed today would come and expressed graititude to president biden, the qatari government and other parties involved in helping the release. they also said today s release proves that we can get all the hostages back home. the israel defense forces spokesman daniel hagari said the release of four year old abigail was proof this is a justified war, fighting a
truce with hamas, whilst 39 palestinian women and children were released from israeli prisons as a part of the hostage deal between israel and hamas. today s releases brings the total number of hostages released during the window to sa and the number of prisoners freed to 117. let s take a closer look at some of the hostages released by hamas today. among the group are sisters, dafna and ela elyakim. they were attacked at their home in kibbutz nir oz. the girls were part of a family group whose capture was live streamed by the hamas attackers themselves. also for the first time, an american israeli citizen was released earlier today. abigail idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7th attacks. her great aunt and cousin said they hoped and prayed today would come, and expressed graititude to president biden, the qatari government and other parties involved in
Evangelical groups like christians united for israel, which is probably the leading christian zionist group in the country, the one that was founded by pastor john hady. so they re willing to look past all the armageddon stuff, because they think that other organizations like it, but particularly kufi, because it has a lot of political muscle, can be helpful to them. and with the push of a send button, they can mobilize folks. and sam, you re saying, you bought the ticket in for a penny, in for a pound. this comes with the territory. this comes with the territory. so i think there s a lot of hypocrisy for any of these organizations, that would otherwise embrace the support of these people, to say that george bush can go fund-raiser for them well, i would say that it s actually even a little worse in the sense that the messianic jewish organizations don t normally get into the same kind of political advocacy that kufi does so it s not even that this is