In a poignant message shared on social media Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee expressed the emotional toll of a recent meeting with families of American citizens still held captive in Gaza by Hamas. Drawing a sharp contrast between Israel’s defense measures and Hamas’s tactics, Huckabee condemned the terror group for its disregard for human life.
“I had the opportunity to sit down with a number of hostage families, all of whom are related to Americans still held in Gaza,” Huckabee wrote. “We want them home now. And the only reason they are not already home is because of Hamas.”
He described the heart-wrenching conversations he had with relatives—some who know their family members were murdered, and others who live in anguished uncertainty, believing their loved ones are still alive but in captivity.
“The only reason they’re not already home is because of Hamas,” he stressed.
Huckabee drew attention to the moral disparity between the two sides in the ongoing conflict. He pointed to Israel’s Iron Dome system as a tool of protection for its citizens and condemned Hamas for using its own population as human shields—a tactic he referred to as a “Flesh Dome.”
“They (Hamas) put their people in front of the military targets rather than protecting their people,” Huckabee said. “They put their people in the most vulnerable positions.”
He concluded with a forceful appeal for the return of American hostages and a decisive end to Hamas’s reign of terror. “That’s why we need to get our hostages home. They don’t care about the individuals and that is the reason this war needs to end, but first, and foremost, Hamas [needs to be] …obliterated.”
{Matzav.com}