2023-11-26 00:20:05
The father of two of the Argentines kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in the savage attack on Israel confirmed this Saturday that “they are alive” and “they are fine”, after some freed hostages testified having seen them in different places of captivity in the Gaza Strip.
The Argentine-Israeli journalist and educator Itzik Horn, who has lived in Israel for more than 20 years, is the father of Yair and Eitan Horn, who have been missing since that day and were presumed to have been kidnapped by Hamas, during the attack in which More than 1,200 people were murdered and another 240 captured as hostages.
“Dear friends, I have to give you very good news. Among the 13 people who were released yesterday, 12 were from Kibbutz Nir Oz, which is the kibbutz from where the boys were taken and from various sources it began to reach me this morning that one of the freed women saw them,” Horn detailed in an audio message to which Télam had access.
“Another one went to the tunnels to Gaza with Eitan and another that in the same car that took her they took Yair and Eitan; and another reported that they were locked in the same room in the same place in the tunnels,” continuous.
“The boys are actually fine, they are alive, which is the most important thing, and well now we have to be patient, this is going to take a long time but the most important thing is that the boys are alive,” said Horn, with whom Télam There was an exchange of messages on WhatsApp to confirm the news.
A vigil in Tel Aviv, awaiting the release of more hostages held by Hamas. Photo: EFE
Horn has no information that her children will be released within the framework of the agreement between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar, where priority is given to releasing older women and mothers with children.
Campaign with Ricardo Darín
The story of the two missing Argentines had spread on social networks through a video that featured the participation of actor Ricardo Darín, along with family and friends of the two brothers, who demanded the release of the hostages captured by Hamas.
“Free the innocent people, please stop this,” Darín spoke out.
In the text that accompanied the campaign video it was stated that the Horn brothers “They disappeared without a trace, It is suspected that the Hamas group has them, any information on their whereabouts will be appreciated, we ask for their prompt return home safe and sound.”
Their father had expressed on October 11 that his children were not in Israeli hospitals, their bodies had not been found and that “no government organization made contact” with them.
This Friday, Hamas guerrillas handed over 24 hostages (13 Israelis, ten Thais and one Filipino) to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to be taken to Israel through Egypt.
Relatives and friends of those kidnapped by Hamas demand their early release, in a march in Tel Aviv, this Saturday. Photo: REUTERS
At first, information circulated that two of those released, Danielle Aloni and her daughter Emilia, had Argentine nationality, but a source from the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires consulted by Télam said that these people have relatives in Argentina. , but they are not citizens of the country.
In the midst of the temporary truce to exchange those captured in the Gaza Strip for Palestinian prisoners and allow the entry of humanitarian aid to the coastal enclave, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners from its prisons.
The release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip occurred 49 days after their kidnapping, following the terrorist attack by Palestinian militiamen on October 7, in which they killed more than 1,200 people, the vast majority of them civilians, and They kidnapped more than 240 people, including twenty Argentines.
That attack caused a open war between Israel and the Islamist group in the Palestinian enclave, where nearly 15,000 deaths were recorded, of which 6,100 were children, according to Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip.
For its part, Qatar announced this Saturday that a second batch of 13 Israeli hostages and 7 foreigners held captive in the Gaza Strip will be released “tonight” in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners, on the second day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.
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