Adam Boehler says meeting with Hamas leaders was \”very helpful\” He did not rule out further meetings with the Palestinian militants. US President Donald Trump threatened further destruction of Gaza if all remaining hostages were not released. Boehler also promised to go to Syria to bring home Austin Tice, an American journalist kidnapped there in 2012, if he is still alive. He said: \”If he’s dead, I’m going to dig up his remains with the FBI… and we’ll bring them home to his mom\”\”We’re the United States. We’re not an agent of Israel,\” Boehler said of his feelings on sitting across from the militants. \”I think when you walk and you sit in front of somebody, and you know what they’ve done, it’s hard not to think of it,\” he said of sitting with the militants in Gaza on Sunday. \”There is a deal where they can get all of the prisoners out, not just the Americans,\” he told CNN later in the evening.