Emma Tsurkov, the sis of Elizabeth Tsurkov, consulted with United States captive envoy Adam Boehler, she revealed on social networks Saturday.
Tsurkov has actually been cooped by Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq for over 2 years after the Russian-Israeli trainee took a trip to the nation.
Discussing my sis (and Princeton trainee) @elizrael– imprisoned in Iraq for over 2 years. Her captors, Kataib Hezbollah, need to be held responsible by Al Sudani @mohamedshia. They ought to consider what ended up being of Hamas. @aboehler #FreeElizabethTsurkov pic.twitter.com/vnASpu4khs
— Emma Tsurkov #FreeElizabeth (@emma_tsurkov) Might 16, 2025
” They ought to consider what ended up being of Hamas,” Emma alerted, speaking of her sis’s captors.
Elizabeth was abducted in Baghdad in March 2023. A couple of months later on, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Workplace verified: “Elizabeth Tsurkov is an Israeli-Russian double person who has actually been missing out on in Iraq for numerous months and is being held by the Shi’ite militia Kataib Hezbollah.”
Spotlight on Tsurkov case after October 7
After the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Kataib Hezbollah made a video of Tsurkov in captivity and sent it to regional media.
Because Trump won the governmental election, there has actually been an increased spotlight on her case, and Iraq’s federal government has actually declared numerous times in current months that it is attempting to find her.
Kataib Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy and part of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Systems, a group of pro-Iranian militias that likewise work as a main paramilitary group in Iraq.
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