Wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her boyfriend, Abboud recounted how she survived a Hamas attack.
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Six months after an outdoor music festival in southern Israel turned into a killing field on October 7, Ziv Abud survived a Hamas attack by hiding under a pile of corpses. , Ziv Abud has been working to rescue his boyfriend who was held hostage.
Abboud, 26, and her boyfriend Eliya Cohen were partygoers at the Nova Festival, an event that was attacked by Hamas gunmen. Cohen was captured and is one of more than 130 people still in custody. Hamas’s attacks triggered the devastating war in Gaza.
“We need to make more efforts, actually we need to do more to free them because clearly we are not doing enough,” Abboud said in a Tel Aviv square that has become a hub for the hostages’ families and their families. The site of the family’s protest. supporter.
“I hope they come home alive now because sending hostages back in coffins is not a triumphant sight.”
The families of many of the hostages are demanding that the Israeli government do everything it can to secure their release from Gaza and are trying to build pressure by intensifying street protests. They also asked Israel’s allies to do more to help their cause.
Egypt will host a new round of talks on Sunday aimed at reaching a truce and a deal to release hostages in Gaza.
Wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her boyfriend, Abboud recounted how she survived a Hamas attack.
“I was buried under the body for six hours, and six hours later a man came looking for his son. When he came looking for his son, based on the location his son sent him, he found me and five other people People,” she told Reuters in an interview.
“If he hadn’t come, I might not be alive today.”
Israel says it will not stop its offensive in Gaza until all hostages are freed and Hamas no longer poses a threat. Hamas seeks to exploit any deal to end the fighting and withdraw Israeli forces.
“I’ve been through these horrors myself, I’m mourning my nephew, I’m mourning my family myself, and despite everything that’s happened, I still get up every morning and think – what am I going to do today to free my partner from Gaza? ?” Abboud said.
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