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Part of the series’ tractor-beam pull is that installments don’t always end with a shamelessly audience-satiating happy climax: Characters are abducted, they lose their innocence, they die in childbirth, they die en masse.

"This defendant, if he had been charged when he should have been, would not have been at liberty to abduct this six-year-old girl," she explained.

Hundreds of people were killed at the festival and a number of people were abducted during the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.

"His conversation with me was the first communication that he had with anybody outside of prison since he was abducted," Van Hollen said.

It added: "We call on the international community to pressure the occupation authorities to immediately release our colleague, medic Assad, who was forcibly abducted while carrying out his humanitarian duties."