{"id":506203,"date":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","slug":"wnbas-tiffany-mitchell-and-former-south-carolina-womens-basketball-players-stuck-in-israel-amid-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506203\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA\u2019s Tiffany Mitchell and former South Carolina women\u2019s basketball players stuck in Israel amid strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina women\u2019s basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that the university is working to bring three former women\u2019s basketball players, including WNBA<\/a> veteran Tiffany Mitchell, home from Israel as joint missile strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Staley shared a message on X revealing that Mitchell, who played last season for the Seattle Storm;<\/a> former Phoenix Mercury forward Mikiah Herbert Harrigan; and former Team USA guard Destiny Littleton were all in Israel at the time of the strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease pray for our @GamecockWBB @TiffMitch25 @2121Mikiah @dstnylttltn24 who are in a war zone in Israel,\u201d her post said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are working a plan to get home. Let us pray for our loved ones to return home safely asap!\u00a0Thank you in advance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neither the WNBA nor the University of South Carolina immediately responded to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Littleton, who played for the South Carolina Gamecocks<\/a> from 2019-2022, posted a series of video updates on social media stating she was \u201csafe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about to head to the shelter now,\u201d she said in one video. \u201cUnfortunate, but this is the circumstance right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mitchell reshared Staley\u2019s post on X with the praying hands emojis, but did not comment further. Herbert Harrigan did the same.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Littleton currently plays for Hapoel Lev Jerusalem, a professional women\u2019s basketball team in the Israeli Women Basketball Premier League. According to the team\u2019s Facebook, she signed with the team in November. She previously played for Team USA basketball, winning a gold medal at the 2017 FIBA 3\u00d73 U18 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Mitchell signed with the Storm in July after beginning the 2025 season with the Las Vegas Aces.<\/a> She has played several offseasons overseas, including a stint with the Russian Women\u2019s Basketball Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She last played with Hapoel Lev Jerusalem during the 2024-2025 season and even won the Israeli Women Basketball Premier League championship in 2019. It was not immediately known if she was currently playing for the team. She announced on her Instagram in November that she had signed with the Beijing Great Wall of the Women\u2019s Chinese Basketball Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Herbert Harrigan was a first-round draft pick in the WNBA, being selected sixth overall in the 2020 WNBA Draft. She has several stints throughout the league, last playing for the Mercury in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was later traded to the Dallas Wings<\/a> before getting waived last year. She currently plays in the Israeli Women Basketball Premier League for Elitzur Ramla.<\/p>\n

The U.S. joined Israel in launching preemptive strikes against Iran on Saturday morning. In video remarks posted to Truth Social, Trump encouraged the Iranian people<\/a> to take over their government once the United States and Israel finished \u201cmajor combat operations\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n

Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes targeting U.S. facilities in multiple countries. Fox News\u2019 Jennifer Griffin reported that approximately 40 missiles had landed in Israel. Additionally, Iran appeared to hit the U.S. Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet, but no casualties were reported. Iran also launched missiles at Saudi Arabia and Jordan, where the U.S. has squadrons of advanced fighter jets, Griffin added.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Michael Sinkewicz and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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