Ex-hostage Liri Albag questioned for an hour at JFK due to system still recording her as hostage

25 May 2025, 11:04 pm 2 Edit

Freed captive Liri Albag speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Liri Albag, a former hostage released by Hamas in a deal earlier this year, was held up for around an hour today by US security guards at New York’s JFK Airport as she arrived with her family for a vacation, Hebrew media reports.

Albag was taken aside for questioning since the American computer system still recorded Albag as a hostage, the reports say.

Around an hour later and only after Israeli authorities urgently intervened, Albag was let go and allowed to enter the US.