Quotes
Returning to fighting? Did you listen to a word of what we, the returnees released in the last deal, have been saying? Do you see us?" ... The sense of being forsaken is the strongest I have ever felt."
Omer Wenkert, another released hostage, wrote ... He added
Get them out! This is the most urgent thing!"
Romi Gonen, who was among the first group of three hostages released by Hamas in January, recalled with horror ... She appealed to the Israeli governmentIsrael's decision to return to fighting brings me back to Gaza, to the moments when I heard the sounds of explosions around me and feared for my life, fearing that the tunnel where I was being held might collapse,
he wroteWe must stop the fighting and bring everyone home,
he addedI am petrified for my best friends, David and Ariel Cunio (who are still held in Gaza),
he said,
We look them in the eye and tell them they have no privilege to do anything other than bring back the hostages,
says the father of senior IDF commander Asaf Hamami whose body is still held in Gaza by Hamas