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Former Kata'ib Hezbollah hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov issues first statement since release

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Tsurkov wrote in English, Arabic, and Hebrew on her X/Twitter account to thank those who helped secure her release.

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October 3, 2025 Baghdad/Bass: The Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsorkov published her first post on Friday...

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Mediafax The Russian-Israeli researcher captured in 2023 by the military and Kataeb Hezbollah, in Iraq, and released on 9 September, after 903 days of arrest, delivered his first public message on the return to freedom. In the message published on Friday on the X platform, Elizabeth Tsurkov, quoted by Times of Israel, thanked the United States for its decisive role in obtaining its release: “In the end, blessed and free, after 903 days of arrest…

"Finally, miraculously, free after 903 days in captivity. Thank you, President Trump, for your decisive action that took me home without giving anything in return to the kidnappers, Kataib Hezbollah," Tsurkov said through a message posted on his account on social network X.

Tsurkov spent about two and a half years in captivity by the Hezbollah group in Iraq, and was released about a month ago. She has now joined the X network and published her first post about her return to life as a free woman - and thanked several important people who helped during the

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Israel Hayom broke the news in on Friday, October 3, 2025.
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