{"id":53144,"date":"2023-12-22T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53144"},"modified":"2023-12-22T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:51:04","slug":"sad-news-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53144","title":{"rendered":"Sad News From Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 22nd, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/22\/news\/hamas-hostage-with-ny-ties-first-american-dead-in-captivity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>An elderly American Israeli with deep ties to New York has become the first US citizen confirmed to have died while being held hostage by Hamas terrorists, it was announced Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Gadi Haggai, 73, was murdered by the terrorists who are still thought to be holding his 70-year-old wife, Judi Weinstein, according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum representing the families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cGadi was a man full of humor who knew how to make those around him laugh,\u201d the families group told the Times of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cA musician at heart, a gifted flautist, he played in the IDF Orchestra and was involved with music his whole life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kibbutz Nir Oz also said Friday the Israeli Defense Forces informed Haggai\u2019s family that he had been murdered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>His body is still in the Palestinian territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to Israel\u2019s official tally, 129 people are still in captivity in the Gaza Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Of those, 22 are dead, the Israeli government says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The forum said that between five and 10 of the hostages hold US citizenship. The US Embassy had no immediate comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel needs to finish what Hamas started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 22nd, The New York Post reported the following: An elderly American Israeli with deep ties to New York has become the first US citizen confirmed to have died while being held hostage by Hamas terrorists, it was announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5383,88,807,14028,17093,14029,657,9872,8321,13579],"class_list":["post-53144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas-terrorists","tag-hostages","tag-israeli-defense-force","tag-new-york-post","tag-terrorists","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-the-times-of-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53146,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53144\/revisions\/53146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}