OAN's Brooke Mallory
3:23 PM – Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Families of four Israeli teenagers kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza give UK interview daily mail Monday Outlet. They appealed to parents everywhere, asking for help and more help to save their loved ones.
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Immediately after the abduction on October 7ththLili Arbag (18) from Moshav Yarkhif, Karina Aliyev (19) from Jerusalem, Daniela Gilboa (19) from Petah Tikva, and Agam Berger (19) from Holon, released by Hamas. Appeared in a propaganda video.
The footage showed four people lined up against a wall with their wrists tied behind their backs. Some were beaten and covered in dried blood.
In addition, each woman's pre-incarceration photo was displayed next to a screenshot taken from the video.
The four are believed to be the youngest female prisoners still held in Gaza by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.
“Imagine if that was your daughter, your little girl, in their hands,” said mother Daniela Gilboa, a pianist who wrote songs and dreamed of becoming a musician. said Orly. “What do you imagine?”
In the attack on October 7thth, hundreds of Hamas terrorists infiltrated across Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, killing at least 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Terrorists massacred as many nearby civilians as possible during a deadly assault in the southern region.
Islamic extremists reportedly tortured and injured many victims.
A temporary ceasefire agreement has resulted in the release of many women and children among the 240 people kidnapped and held as hostages in Gaza.
“We understood exactly what they did on October 7,” Orly said. “If they could do that, what were they doing for 90 days? I don't want to imagine what's going on.”
Families expressed concern that some female prisoners had been mutilated or raped at gunpoint.
“I heard about the sexual abuse,” said Shlomi Berger, Agam's father. “As a father, I can't even imagine something like this. A family has been torn apart.”
He also said the family was “torn apart; [and] It's not working,'' he said, adding that the situation is having a serious impact on each individual.
“It's tragic. It's powerless.[ness]. My mother is in a terrible situation. She doesn’t know what to do,” said Karina’s sister, Sasha.
Karina is “a very kind, very humble, innocent and pure creature. I can't stop thinking about her, I'll do anything to have her back,” her sister said.
Other freed hostages also provided information about their children to their families. After being liberated from Hamas on November 26thth Chen Goldstein-Almog, along with her three children, claimed to have seen four teenagers at a residence in Gaza.
“Some of them were close in age to my daughters, so I hugged them really tight,” she told reporters.
However, Goldstein-Almog also returned with terrifying information about the hostage situation.
“Some of the girls were seriously injured, but they were not given proper medical treatment,” she said of the hostages she saw. “Gunshot wounds, even lost limbs. They said you can deal with a disability, but you can't deal with an attitude that is constantly being violated.”
Although not all of the 132 hostages captured on October 7th,th They are believed to be alive and still in Gaza after 105 civilians were released from Hamas custody during a week-long ceasefire in late November. By then, four hostages had been freed and one was rescued by the military.
The bodies of eight prisoners were also discovered.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed the deaths of 25 people held in Hamas custody, based on new data and findings from soldiers in Gaza.
Kfir Bivas, who was abducted when he was nine months old, and his four-year-old brother Ariel Bibas, are believed to be the youngest hostages taken. Their parents, Yarden and Shiri, were also kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Israel responded to the October 7 attack by launching a military operation to destroy Hamas, drive it from Gaza, and release prisoners.th.
At the end of the interview, Ollie recalled the days when her daughter played the piano at home and led singing performances with her sister.
“I wish that were the case. [like this] Today,” she said.
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