At 10:14 a.m., Romi Gonen informed her mother: “Mom, we have been ambushed.”
The family of an Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas have released harrowing footage of her last moments before her abduction. Romi Gonen, 23, was ambushed by Hamas in October as she fled the Nova Music Festival in October, and was killed shortly after, according to the New York Post. Mother Meirav called.
Ms. Gonen spent the morning on the phone with her mother. At 10:15, she was in the car with her friend and told her mother they had been shot and she was bleeding.
“They shot me, mom, and I was bleeding,” Romi told her mother. “Everyone in the car was bleeding.”
Her best friend, 24-year-old Gaya Halifa, lay dying in front of her.
Meirav, 54, tried to comfort her daughter, telling Ms Gonen: “Romichoo, I’m with you, honey. Everything is going to be okay.
Merav was originally daily mail.
Ms. Gonen was shot in the arm and lost the use of her hand. She made sure her mother was still listening on the other end.
“Hello Mom?”
Ms Gonen’s mother tried to ask for details of the car she was traveling in so she could help. But when she got no response, her mother assured her, “Romilly, you are not alone. You are with me, my beautiful child. Everything is fine.”
Meirav was on the line for 45 minutes, but they didn’t release the entire recording because it was too painful.
At 10:14 a.m., Romi Gonen informed her mother: “Mom, we have been ambushed.”
According to the Daily Mail, the daughter said: “The driver was probably dead. Gaya was shot but she didn’t answer. Ofhir was shot and I was shot in the arm.”
“Mom, you know, if no one comes, I will die.”
Merav decided to record the call.
“My mom told us she knew no one would come,” said Romy’s sister Arden.
“She changed her voice and became calmer and more loving and just told her how much she loved her and that everything was going to be okay.”
“She said she wished she could hear her voice loud and clear to let her know there was hope and that she would fight for her and that she was loved.”
In the final moments of the call, Merav promised that they would return to the cafe where they dined three days ago and “you will tell me everything after you recover.”
Hamas quickly arrived and opened the car, then could be heard discussing whether to kill her and Ofir Tzarfati, a 27-year-old man traveling with her.
In the video, Hamas can be heard arguing over who should kidnap her, the Daily Mail reported.
Eventually, they drag Romi away and take her hostage.
Chalfaty was later confirmed dead, and Khalifa and the man who risked his life to rescue them – 31-year-old Ben Shimoni – earned the title “Rising Star Angels”.
Romy, a trained doctor, was trying to take her pulse when she was shot.
The Gonen family said they had no idea what happened to Romy for 55 days.
Finally, when the hostages were released in November, some people approached them and reported that they had seen her alive in Gaza, Yarden said. new york post the report said.
Israel said 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attack, which sparked nearly seven weeks of war in Gaza. Israel says its mission is to eliminate Hamas and return some 240 hostages held in Gaza.
