Freed Israeli-Russian hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov said on Wednesday that Jerusalem’s assassination campaign targeting top Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian terrorists contributed to hear release from captivity.

Tsurkov, who was held for two and a half years by Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq, told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday that she believes the IDF military campaign “rattled” the terrorist leaders, leading them to view their captive as a liability.

The exclusive interview, in which Tsurkov for the first time revealed the details of physical and mental abuse she underwent in captivity, came around eight weeks after the United States and Israel helped secure her release.

After being kidnapped when leaving a central Baghdad coffee shop in March 2023, the Pri

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