Roughly pushed into the car, with bloody pants and hands tied behind the back: that was the last image Ayelet Levy Sachar saw of her daughter. Now she herself is responding for the first time. “Every minute she is held hostage is an eternity in hell.”
“You have all seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy,” the woman wrote in a heartbreaking post for the new media company The Free Press. “She is seriously injured and in fear of death. And I, her mother, am powerless in this terrible time.”
Levy is one of seventeen young women still held by Hamas. She was staying at Kibbutz Nahal Oz when the terrorists carried out their deadly raid on October 7.
Fallout shelter
“My daughter said in her last text message that she was in the shelter. I had never heard anything like that from her before,” said Ayelet.
LOOK. Naama Levy was kidnapped by Hamas fighters
The next day, the mother discovered through the video the inhumane circumstances in which Levy had been kidnapped. “The whole world now knows her, through images that do not correspond at all to the life she led.”
Career in diplomacy
After all, the teenager dreamed of a career in diplomacy. She also worked for Hands of Peace, an organization for Palestinian, Israeli and American youth fighting for peace.
Dozens of Israeli hostages have since been released, but Naama was not among them. “Of course I have also heard those terrible testimonies about rape and violence against women. And those same monsters are now holding my daughter captive. Every minute she is held hostage is an eternity in hell,” Ayelet said.
“What’s going on in her mind?”
“I worry about her basic needs,” the mother says in a video. “What is going on in her mind now? In her soul? I want to go there to get her, but unfortunately I can’t. I’m doing everything I can to get her and other hostages released. What would you do if your daughter was held hostage by violent rapists and murderers for two months? Or better yet, is there anything you wouldn’t do in those circumstances?”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas would not release some female hostages. Otherwise they could reveal the painful scenes they experienced during their captivity. “We all know exactly what he means by that,” Ayelet concludes.
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