(10 Sep 2025)
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Ramat Gan, Israel – 10 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Ambulances arriving at Sheba Medical Center, one believed to be carrying Elizabeth Tsurkov after she landed in Israel
2. Close of ambulance arriving
3. Various of medical team waiting to transfer Tsurkov to inside the medical center
4. Various of parked ambulance backing up toward cover erected during Tsurkov’s transfer to inside the medical center
5. Wide of parked ambulance outside hospital
STORYLINE:
Elizabeth Tsurkov arrived at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel on Wednesday night following her release from detention in Iraq.
The Princeton University graduate student, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there, had been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and officials said Tuesday.
Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days in custody after disappearing in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, as she was pursuing a doctorate focused on sectarianism in the region.
She was turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after having been “tortured for many months,” President Donald Trump said in a social media post in which he identified her captors as from Kataib Hezbollah, part of a coalition of Iranian-backed militias that are officially part of Iraq’s armed forces but in practice often act on their own.
The U.S. government listed the group, which has not claimed the kidnapping, as a terrorist organization in 2009.
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