two families of Israeli hostages in Gaza testify

Eleven months after the attacks of October 7, 2023, 97 Israeli hostages are still in the hands of Hamas terrorists. “They must think that they have been forgotten, and that maybe they will stay there forever and die. It breaks my heart“, confides Aviva Siegel. She was hostage by Hamas for 51 days. Kidnapped with her husband on October 7, she was released in November. He is still captive in the Palestinian enclave.

Every Saturday evening, she demonstrates in Tel Aviv (Israel). Posted on a bridge, she asks that the hostages not be forgotten, just like her daughter Shir, who fights tirelessly for her father. “I do everything I can from morning to night, every day, but it’s not enough“, she laments.

On this same bridge, another family: that of the Franco-Israeli hostage Ohad Yahalomi. His wife’s two children, terrified, now sleep in his room. On October 7, she managed to escape with her two daughters. But her husband, injured, and her son were taken away by the terrorists. After 51 days, the first was finally released. “They forced him to watch videos that they had filmed that Saturday (…) They beat him, and they said that Israel no longer existed“, she says.