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One month after his release from Gaza Danielle Aloni (Photo), kidnapped by Hamas terrorists On October 7th, she and her 6yearold daughter reported the horrors she had experienced in captivity. In an interview with Israeli television station N12, Danielle explained that there are “no words for it in Hebrew.” Describe the terror that she and her daughter went through.
“After covering my daughter with a blanket, I held her and told her, 'I'm sorry, we're going to die here'”.
She described her reaction to the kidnapping as “a feeling of Terror that cannot be explained in words“.
“There are no words in Hebrew that can describe this kind of terror. They have to invent new words to explain what happened that day.”
He also said that he responded to the kidnappers in Arabic to avoid kidnapping his daughter: “They just took my little daughter Emma. They took a girl from her mother's hands. I started screaming [em árabe] La, la! Binti, binti! There!” (No, no! My daughter, my daughter! No!)
In the interview, Danielle Aloni showed the interviewer how the Hamas terrorist shook his head, pointed his finger at her and then pretended to want to shoot his daughterHe makes a weapon gesture with his hand.
The freed Israeli hostage also spoke about the moment she was taken to prison Hamas tunnel network in the Gaza Strip. He said he saw other people being kidnapped with open and untreated wounds.
“When we entered the next tunnel, I saw the injured, people who were seriously injured, with open wounds, with bruised and beaten faces.”
Aloni also explained that his Her daughter calmed her down when she suffered a panic attack.
“I screamed, 'I'm going to die here!' I will die here! I'm going to die here!' Those were the only words that came out. I felt like I was going to die there. My daughter patted my face: “Mom, don’t cry, I’m fine, I’m fine.” Because every time I saw her distressed, I started crying, so she comforted me.”
Danielle, 44, and her daughter Emilia, 6, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7th.
More than 240 Israelis were captured that day, and since then more than 100 have been released and returned to Israel as part of a prisoner exchange. The estimate is approx 133 hostages are still being held in captivity in Gaza.
Check out Danielle's report:
“After covering my daughter with a blanket, I hugged her tightly and told her, “I’m sorry, but we’re going to die.”
Part of Daniel Aloni's heartbreaking interview with @N12News,
I ask you to please watch it, share it and understand that this is what so many hostages went through. pic.twitter.com/2Q6G1dPQuv
Yaari Cohen (@YaariCohen) January 6, 2024