Is held prisoner in an apartment building in Gaza, suddenly the building is bombed, the building collapses, Roni is injured, the power of despair helps him emerge from the rubble, he runs away, he is afraid that the terrorists will take him back, Yes, he’s hiding where he can while the rockets continue to rain down on him. After four days of escaping without sleeping, eating, drinking and trying to find his way to the border with Israel, some residents of Gaza see him: they take him prisoner and in no time he is back in the hands of the militiamen .
The story of Roni Kriboi, an Israeli-Russian citizen who was kidnapped by Hamas at a rave in the Negev on October 7, was told by his aunt Yelena Magid after his release on Sunday evening. Hamas said it released him, the only young man among women, children and the elderly, as a “homage to the efforts of President Vladimir Putin and as a sign of respect for Russia’s position.” Roni, 25, was working as a sound engineer at the festival that evening and was having fun like all the other kids. When the militiamen arrived, mowing down lives and raping young women, he tried to seek refuge with a friend. At ten in the morning there was no trace of him. His brother Igor called him, a male voice answered in Arabic, then nothing. “Roni believed that the only solution was to get away and reach Israel on foot. But he didn’t have the means to understand where he was and which direction he should go, he couldn’t move through the streets without being there.” “He was recognized by the residents of Gaza. He was like in a movie. He was alone,” Yelena told Israeli media. It was impossible for him to blend in with the Palestinians despite the chaos of the bombings, and it was impossible for him not to understand that he was an escaped hostage: ragged, bloody, with long blonde hair. He was injured in the head and other parts of his body when the building in which he was imprisoned collapsed, “but he is fine. The doctors are carrying out checks,” his aunt said again, explaining that she had spoken to her immediately afterwards for half an hour. The return to Israel. In the photos published by Israeli websites, Roni sits in a minibus, his face propped on one hand, deep dark circles under his eyes, his gaze fixed on the road, no greeting, no smile. “I asked him, ‘How are you feeling? Do you have nightmares?’” he reassured her and answered her aunt’s questions. Now this young man’s testimony will be particularly valuable to the men of the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence service. No other hostages left the tunnel or room in which they were held captive by the terrorists. No one else was in a Gaza ravine as militiamen advanced in the darkness, firing rockets and returning fire. For four days and four nights Roni could see and hear, not seen. After the medical examinations, he will tell about the monster that poisons his sleep, about his tormentors, about the place where he lost his freedom. And who knows, maybe his statement will help the army chart a path to the missing hostages, whose fate even Hamas doesn’t know.
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