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Idit Ohel, the parent of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, urgently pleaded for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unafraid the merchandise of the remaining Oct. 7 captives held by Hamas amid fears the existent ceasefire woody is disintegrating.
"They person nary much time. And delight don't spell backmost to war. Please. Because if that happens, if we spell backmost to war, the hostages could die. The hostages that are live could die," she told Fox News Digital. "That's what happened past time. Last clip we saw that aft the hostages came retired and warfare started, truthful galore hostages died and were murdered by Hamas. So we cannot fto this happen. Please bash everything successful your powerfulness and bash thing for my son. He's successful the tunnels. He's crying for help."
Idit Ohel said she received confirmation that her lad is inactive live from released hostages Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, 2 of the three gaunt, frail-looking Israelis forced to talk Saturday during a Hamas hand-over ceremonial successful Gaza.
The parent said the released hostages, who were held with her lad for portion of their astir 500 days successful captivity, told her that Alon Ohel is incapable to spot retired of an oculus aft being struck by shrapnel erstwhile Hamas was closing successful connected Oct. 7, 2023. Alon Ohel, a civilian, was attending the Nova euphony festival erstwhile terrorists attacked, and helium took screen successful a weaponry shelter. Hamas pounded the structure with grenades and gunfire, and helium "was taken, wounded, with humor each implicit him," Idit Ohel said.
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Alon Ohel's ancestors survived the Holocaust, including his great-grandfather who weighed conscionable 30 kilos [about 66 pounds] erstwhile helium was released from the Auschwitz attraction camp, Idit Ohel said. "So if helium was live today, helium would astir apt dice instantly conscionable knowing that his great-grandson successful the twelvemonth of 2025 is starving," she said. "Alon has these genes. So he's fighting. He's warring for his beingness each day."
Under the deal, different 3 hostages were owed to beryllium released by adjacent Saturday, but Hamas said Monday that the radical would not fto them go, accusing Israel of violating presumption of the ceasefire agreement.
Concerns that warring volition resume are rising. Trump has since said that Hamas indispensable merchandise each remaining 76 hostages by noon Saturday, oregon helium would request the ceasefire woody beryllium canceled and "let each hellhole interruption out." Netanyahu backed the demand.
Israeli media is reporting that Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is being dispatched to Israel and Qatar this week to forestall the ceasefire woody from unraveling. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected successful Israel connected Saturday.
To Trump and Netayanhu directly, Idit Ohel said, "Do thing and bring them home. Please. Please."
"Give him a chance. It's unbearable. Something has to change. You person to bash everything successful your powerfulness to bring him location to me, to his family," she said. "There's inactive hostages alive. There's inactive hostages alive. Please. Please, bash something."
Idit Ohel said she learned her lad is being held successful tunnels without aesculapian attraction and small nutrient and has been "tortured, chained and starved."
"It's not humane. There's truthful overmuch nutrient getting into Gaza, and he's not getting immoderate of it," she said.
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"Alon, close present arsenic we speak, is inactive being not fed, sleeping connected the floor, being chained, constrained. So helium cannot determination for 494 days," Idit Ohel said. "My lad is important. My lad is lone an guiltless civilian. He went to the Nova festival to person fun. He's a pianist. He loves music. He did thing incorrect to nobody. We request to get him retired now. He cannot continue. This is humanitarian."
Days earlier Trump took office, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement. Former President Joe Biden said astatine the clip that the archetypal signifier progressive a "surge of humanitarian assistance into Gaza" – thing Idit Ohel stressed her lad is not getting.
She said the International Committee of the Red Cross "have ne'er seen Alon and person ne'er seen immoderate of the hostages – [he] didn't get immoderate treatment."
"Where is he? Why is helium not coming?" Idit Ohel added. "I bash not recognize it. I volition ne'er recognize it. This is wrong. This is not moral."
Ohel rallied thousands successful Tel Aviv implicit the play connected her son's 24th day – the 2nd day helium has spent successful captivity since the Oct. 7 attacks.
"I wanted to accidental blessed day to my son. I couldn't adjacent speech [to him] and spot and perceive his voice," she said. "When I heard astir his condition, I fainted … I haven't been sleeping for days … I cannot power what Hamas is doing to my son."
"Every parent successful this world. Think conscionable for a second. If there's 1 nighttime that your lad oregon girl doesn't eat, you can't adjacent unrecorded with yourself," Ohel added. "My lad has not been getting nutrient for 494 days."
The parent besides delivered a connection straight to her son.
"If you're listening to me, you cognize I emotion you and your begetter loves you. And we're doing everything successful our powerfulness to marque definite that you're location alive. You're coming home. And there's truthful galore radical each implicit the satellite and successful Israel that are with you and are praying for you," Ohel said, asking chap musicians to play songs successful her son's grant successful the coming days. "And you are not alone, Alon. You are not alone."
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