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His captors, who need him alive as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Israeli government, fear that local civilians would lynch an Israeli if they saw one.

"My eyes were blindfolded, but I could hear men and children and they started to lynch me with their bare hands, and the kids' shoes start to hit me when I was on the ground."

Some seem to be smiling, reminiscent of the merry onlookers grinning for the camera in grisly lynching photos.

Her father, the late actor Henry Fonda, witnessed the lynching of a Black man during the 1919 Omaha race riots when he was 14, casting him into becoming a lifelong liberal.

The pictures show the mob ruthlessness of lynching — the extrajudicial murder of human beings, usually by hanging from a tree.