What it was like inside the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue during the 11-hour hostage standoff
CNN
It started like most any Saturday for members of Congregation Beth Israel.
Families of the Reform Jewish synagogue just outside Dallas-Fort Worth had gathered -- in person and online -- to participate in the Sabbath service, even amid the twin perils of a fresh pandemic wave and a swelling tide of attacks on Jewish people in the United States.
By day's end, the community of faith in Colleyville, Texas, would be at the center of a global drama involving a livestreamed hostage-taking, an imprisoned terrorist icon, an elite FBI rescue team and a final, frantic sprint to freedom.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.