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JERUSALEM – Middle East/Israel Morning Brief
Marco Rubio: Taliban holding more than U.S. hostages than has been reported
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened the heads of the Taliban with a "very big bounty" after hearing that more American hostages are being held by the group, the New York Post reported.
"Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported," the secretary wrote on X.
"If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden," he threatened.
Last week, two Americans held by the Taliban were freed in a prisoner swap.
Report: Hamas cold-bloodedly executes several Gazans accused of 'collaborating with Israel'
Hamas terrorists recently executed several individuals accused of being "collaborators" with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as shown in a video on a Telegram account, reported Israel National News.
According to a report in Times of Israel, the video, posted to Gaza Now's Telegram account, depicts more than a dozen armed Hamas terrorists, many wearing uniforms, firing on three men who are lying on the ground.
The accompanying caption reads: "The moment of punishing the agents of the Zionist occupation who caused the killing of thousands of our Palestinian people in Gaza."
The authenticity of the video has not yet been independently verified.
Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip in a bloody coup in 2007, regularly claims to have captured "Israeli spies," and many times it tries them and sentences them to death.
In September 2022, Hamas authorities executed two Palestinian Arabs who were convicted of assisting Israel by giving it information which resulted in the deaths of two people.
Trump urges Egypt, Jordan to accept more Palestinian refugees from Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip – potentially moving out enough of the population to "just clean out" the war-torn area and create a virtual clean slate.
