Freed -off Israeli hostages did not know about the deaths of their relatives
Freed -off Israeli hostages did not know about the deaths of their relatives
For the Israeli hostages released on Saturday, suffering did not end when Hamas fighter displayed their fresh and emaciated figures on a stage in Gaza before they were handed over to the Red Cross. It was only later, when the freed men were back on home, that two of them had to learn that some of the beloved people they hoped were already dead.
painful revelations after returning
During her staged presentation by Hamas, one of the Israeli hostages, Eli Sharabi, expressed the desire to see his wife Liann and his daughters Noiya and Yahel again before the crowd. All three were killed on the Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th during the attack by Hamas. However, it was only when he returned to Israel that Sharabi learned about her fate, as the forum for hostages and missing families reported.
"He didn't know,"
Sharabi seemed to know that his brother Yossi - who was also taken hostage by Hamas - had since died in Gaza, where, according to Israeli military, his body is still lying. Both men and their families lived in the Kibbutz, in which more than 100 people died during the attacks on October 7th. Sharabi's niece had previously talked about the close relationship between the two families.
uncertain fate and family merging
Another Geisel, or Levy, who was released on Saturday, feared that his wife had died Einav, but due to the lack of access to news during his captivity, knew whether this was the case, as his mother Geula Levy reported. Levy, 34, was kidnapped on October 7th during the Nova music festival. His wife Einav was killed during the attack.
Levy asked about his wife when he was in the Sheba hospital after his release. "He didn't know. He suspected it and asked, and we told him," she told Israeli radio 11 news. In the hospital, Levy met his son again, who was only 2 years old when his father was kidnapped. Father and son came together, "as if nothing had happened," reported Geula Levy.
claims for immediate measures
The experiences of Sharabi, Levy and Ohad Ben Ami in their captivity and the realization that they knew nothing about the fate of their loved ones have already mobilized a family of hostage to demand more measures. On Saturday, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polish, an Israeli-American who was murdered by Hamas fighters in Gaza in August, urged US President Donald Trump and his Middle East Sonderstanded Steve Witkoff to use all the hosts recorded in Gaza and to reject the multi-stage approach to the agency. Had met Israel and Hamas.
"Our appeal to you (Trump and Witkoff) is now that you have done the difficult part of the movements and the beginning of an agreement, do not let us think about phase one and phase two."
Jon Goldberg-Polish asked in a video: "All 76 hostages. This week. The end of the war. Who benefits from delaying it for so long? Don't the people in this region. Let us do it now."
A total of 33 Israeli hostages are to be released as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which came into force on January 19 and is to take six weeks. After the release of the three hostages on Saturday, Hamas and her allies still record a total of 73 people who were kidnapped from Israel on October 7, 2023, and an additional three that were already recorded beforehand. Negotiations on the second and third phase are said to have not yet started seriously.
Hersh Goldberg-Polish was kidnapped at the same time as Levy. Both had tried to hide in a bunker before being captured and brought to Gaza in the cargo area of a pickup truck. The Goldberg-Polins reported that their call was motivated by the concern about the state of the three hostages released on Saturday, and that OR (Levy) had no idea what had happened to Hersh, and that Eli (Sharabi) did not know that his daughters and his wife had been murdered.
They stayed closely with Levi's family and noticed that one of Levi's first questions about his release was how Hersh was doing, completely ignorant that he had been killed. "He assumed that he had been released for a long time," said Rachel Goldberg-Polish.
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