Relatives of Jews who migrated from Yemen to Palestine as tourists will be taken as hostages by the Yemen government in order to guarantee that the Jewish tourists will return to Yemen, it was announced here today, according to information received from Sanaa, Yemen.
The hostages will not only be imprisoned but their houses will be destroyed if the tourists do not return from Palestine within a definite period of time.
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