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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nStatement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Her Meeting with Noam Shalit, September 7, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
I was honored to meet with Noam Shalit today, 1,900 days after his son, Gilad, was taken captive.\u00a0During this period, Hamas has held Gilad hostage and without access by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in violation of international humanitarian standards and basic decency.\u00a0I expressed to Mr. Shalit the solidarity of the United States with him and his family, and I reiterated our strongest condemnation of his son\u2019s detention.\u00a0As I have said repeatedly in the UN Security Council, Hamas must immediately and unconditionally release Gilad Shalit.<\/p>\n
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For more than 5 years an innocent kidnap victim has suffered, and words are the best we can do?\u00a0 The United States is the most powerful nation in the world, and while I know that the fate of virtually no single person will be at the top of a nation’s priority list, our country needs to do more.\u00a0 Frankly, I believe that Israel does too, but that is a different conversation — one about how standing on principle gets dangerously in the way of saving this kid’s life.\u00a0 But let’s keep\u00a0this close to home.\u00a0 What more could, and should,\u00a0the United States be doing to secure the release of Gilad Shalit?<\/p>\n
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