STORY: Sharon Alony-Cunio, alongside along with her two younger twins spent a harrowing 52 days as a Hamas hostage within the Gaza Strip.
And within the first interview since her launch, she advised Reuters her ideas have been now along with her husband, David, who remains to be held captive.
“Three days earlier than we have been launched they separated David from us, they took him into a special hiding place, and since then I don’t know what is occurring to him. The ladies are torn, I’m torn, he’s been my accomplice for 10 years, he’s my different half and the love of my life, he’s the daddy of my ladies who’re asking every single day – the place’s daddy, the place’s daddy? I want to elucidate to them that he’s nonetheless there.”
Alony-Cunio was one in every of 240 individuals taken hostage on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen who burst by means of the border with Israel and killed 1,200 individuals.
The militants who attacked her kibbutz set hearth to her home and took her away at gunpoint after she climbed out the window.
She was taken throughout the border along with her husband David and one in every of their twins…
Their second daughter was held individually in Gaza for 10 days earlier than they have been reunited in captivity.
“Each minute we’re ready is sort of a Russian roulette. Will they reside by means of the day or not. And the circumstances are tough, circumstances that nobody must reside in, specifically not kids or adults with out drugs. We noticed that many have already misplaced their lives in captivity. So every second is vital and we have to do the whole lot to place the goal of releasing all hostages previous to the rest.”
Alony-Cunio stated her group of hostages was held above floor and moved a couple of occasions, however with reminiscences nonetheless uncooked and along with her husband nonetheless inside, she declined to enter particulars.
A seven-day truce noticed greater than 100 hostages launched. The remainder are nonetheless being held as Israel bombards Gaza, vowing to take out Hamas.
Based on native well being authorities, greater than 18,000 individuals have been killed in Gaza for the reason that begin of preventing.
Now again dwelling along with her twin three-year-olds, Julie and Emma, Alony-Cunio pleads for the remaining 137 hostages to be freed.
“There are a variety of households with out a father, with out a daughter, with out a brother, with out a grandfather, grandmother, mom. Everybody, it’s like 138 households there. They should come again now. It’s important to do the whole lot you possibly can to carry them again now.”
