Pop star Tony Orlando visited the families of three kidnapped Israeli teens and asked Americans to hang three yellow ribbons in solidarity with the youths.
“Children should not be touched,” Orlando, 70, best known for his 1973 hit “Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Ole Oak Tree,” said from Israel on Tuesday. “To the captors: please bring those children home.”
The teens — Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrah — disappeared returning home from school in the West Bank on Thursday.
In addition to Orlando, the teens had another unexpected advocate on Wednesday: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The kidnappers “want to destroy us,” Abbas told foreign ministers of Islamic countries in Saudi Arabia. “We will hold them accountable.”