From left to right - Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher and Romi Ganen
Gonen had been abducted during the Nova Music Festival while Damari and Steinbrecher were taken from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023.
Their handover in Gaza from Hamas to the Red Cross was chaotic to say the least. Hamas members were armed and in full regalia with the crowd slowing down the Red Cross vehicles carrying Ganen, Damari and Steinbrecher to freedom and taunting them with anti-Semitic chants thus prolonging their ordeal. The mob could have quite easily lynched the women. The people from Gaza, far from having endured a famine and genocide, are alive, well and hungry only for their hatred of the Jews.
Fortunately, Ganen, Damari and Steinbrecher are also alive and, hopefully in time will soon be well.
It is my hope that these women will tell the world about what happened to them - if they are prepared to do so. It is a lot to ask of them and any other hostages who were previously freed and shall soon be freed. As with Holocaust survivors, they would have to relive their traumatic experiences. These women are fully within their right to never share their what they endured.
Nevertheless, I believe the evil wrought upon by Hamas must be told by those who survived their evil. To be sure, there will be some among us who are not prepared to listen. There are those in this country and beyond who believe Hamas is the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people and that the hostages had what was coming to them even many among their ranks deny Hamas committed any rapes at all.
Yet I have to believe there are enough decent people in the world who would be moved by the words of Romi Ganen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher to see Hamas for what it is - an organization committed to murdering Jews for being Jews.
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