The hidden challenges for hostage release, Ramadan, and Israel - analysis
Interventions make an immediate new IDF escalation less likely because it might necessitate evacuating the foreign aid personnel, which will now include US military personnel.
Members of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Red Crescent Society load humanitarian aid and relief supplies onto a cargo truck, after the vehicle was checked for explosives, at the port of Umm Qasr Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM(photo credit: NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive)ByYONAH JEREMY BOBUpdated:
