On Wednesday evening, it was revealed that an Israeli woman holding Russian and American citizenship had been kidnapped by an armed group in a Kurdish area in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the kidnapped woman entered Iraq with her Russian passport 4 months ago, and was kidnapped while she was wandering in a Kurdish region in Iraq.

And the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the kidnapping of Elizabeth Tsurkov, blaming Iraq for her life, and indicating that she is alive.

He indicated that she was kidnapped by the pro-Iranian Iraqi Hezbollah group.