Kidnapped Princeton Student Elizabeth Tsurkov Appears in Video for First Time Since Abduction

Tsurkov, Held by Kataeb Hezbollah, Warns of Consequences of Israel's War on Hamas in Video

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a 36-year-old Israeli-Russian citizen and Princeton University student, has appeared in a video for the first time since her kidnapping in Iraq eight months ago.
The video, which was uploaded to Telegram, shows Tsurkov supposedly confessing to being a spy and warning that Israel’s war on Hamas will lead to the death of Israeli hostages.
Tsurkov was kidnapped in Baghdad by the Shiite group Kataeb Hezbollah while conducting research for her doctoral thesis.
Israeli officials have denied that Tsurkov is a spy, stating that she is an innocent citizen doing doctoral work in Princeton.
The video is seen as an important step in the process to bring Tsurkov home to her family.