President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Princeton University student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released by Hezbollah, an Islamist militant organization.
Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli dual citizen who identifies as Jewish, was "just released" by Kata’ib Hezbollah, and is now safe inside the American Embassy in Iraq, the president wrote in a Truth Social post.
Members of the Palestinian Prisoners Committee hold a rally outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Gaza City on July 17, 2023, demanding the Iraqi government to include Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in the exchange for Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
She was abducted at a café in Baghdad’s Karrada district in 2023 while conducting academic research for her dissertation, and was allegedly tortured over the span of months.
Her sister is an American citizen.
"I will always fight for JUSTICE, and never give up," Trump wrote in the post. "HAMAS, RELEASE THE HOSTAGES, NOW!"