The Data Proves What Israel Has Been Claiming: Hamas is Worse than ISIS

Hamas is holding 239 hostages in Gaza. That’s double the number that ISIS took in Iraq during a decade of jihadi terror, when kidnapping was the weapon of choice for terrorists. Here’s the data

Hamas is holding 239 hostages in Gaza. That’s double the number that ISIS took in Iraq during a decade of jihadi terror, when kidnapping was the weapon of choice for terrorists. Here’s the data

Hamas is holding 239 hostages in Gaza. That’s double the number that ISIS took in Iraq during a decade of jihadi terror, when kidnapping was the weapon of choice for terrorists. Here’s the data

Posters of Israeli hostages in Gaza at Harvard University. Photo: Reuters

Miki Levy

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November 13, 2023

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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, The United States Military Academy >> Held Hostage: Analyses of Kidnapping Across Time and Among Jihadist Organizations >> Seth Loertscher and Daniel Milton >> December 2015

START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism). (2022). Global Terrorism Database 1970 - 2020 [data file]. https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd

The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University >>

Hostages and Missing Persons - Changing the Israeli Paradigm >> N. Oz, Research fellow at the Institute on behalf of the Prime Minister's Office >> February 2021 [https://rb.gy/ddxovk Heb]

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