Idit Ohel He received his son’s first sign of life, Alon, kidnapped by Hamas during the Nova Festival, almost 500 days after his captivity, After the release of your cell companions. What he heard fed his concern for the health of his firstborn but it was also a breath of hope in the midst of suffering and the endless wait for his return. “He is retained in the tunnels, more than 40 meters deep, with the knees chained, receiving powers and without food. He does not know what time it is, or if it is day or night. Neither if it is summer or winter,” her mother tells with a huge strength of about thirty journalists, including reason, who make a press trip organized by the Eipa organization. It is not the extreme thinness that most worries him, is his visual acuity.“He has shrapnel in one of his eyes And it is serious because I have been visiting several doctors worldwide and they tell me that if it is not treated soon I could lose sight forever. ”
Today there is another matter that takes away your dream. As the other three hostages with which his son was and who have already been released, Hamas’s terrorists behave better during the periods of truce, however, however, however, however, however, however, however, When the fighting returns, so do the blows. Only two days ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered selective bombings on the Gaza Strip with the aim of discarding Islamists for their refusal to free the 63 kidnapped. “They are not treating it well,” It supposes with resignation but without directly blaming Netanyahu. “I think he who is doing the best he can to free the country,” he replies in an indirect criticism of executive management without wanting to enter the matter too much because he seeks to maintain a fluid relationship with the government to have information about Olen. In fact, despite the resurgence of the conflict, he does not fear for the life of his son. “I don’t think they will kill him, they need him”he says firmly. All analysts consulted by reason, agree to underline that jihadists use hostages, in addition to the Gazatí population, as a currency in their pulse with Israel.
“I am not a victim, I am a mother who looks forward,” Idit continues with a commendable serenity while showing Alon photographs during all his stages of life, which reveal all his dreams and desires. He is 24 years old, -he has celebrated two -year -old anniversaries – He is a talented pianist, lover of adventures, travel and his friends. At home he awaits his piano with the open lid as he left it. “Before leaving to the Nova Festival, Alon played his last song, so far. “The piano lid always closes after playing and that day did not do it,” Your mother tells you to find an explanation or hope in that gesture. Also, in a chair, the beacon overlap remains that I intended to take to the music festival, but that forgot in the car.
His mother tells how he learned almost live that the jihadists had taken his son. “When we woke up on the morning of October 7, my husband asked me scared for Olen because I was not at home. I told him that he would not worry that he was at the festival and that was when he asked me if I had not heard how terrible it was happening,” he recalls as he shows a screenshot of the conversation he had with him.
At 7:57 in the morning I send him a message asking him where the eleven minutes Alon was already replied that he was in a shelter and with a ‘I’m fine’. It was then that the world collapsed. He called the police without much comfort, since the answer he received was “To try to survive.”
Both through the videos of his son’s mobile and the videos that the jihadists also disseminated he discovered everything that happened that fateful tomorrow. His son hid in a shelter with 26 people. When Hamas found them they started throwing grenades and shots. Alon’s last image was published by jihadists. His son appears in a truck driven by barbarians armed with assault fusters. Since then until just a few days he did not know anything about him again.
Some hostages, the terrorists move them from one place to another, including hospitals where they are used as human shields, however, Alon has been underground all this time in a cell of 1.5 x 2 meters. Until recently he was accompanied by the other three hostages and among the four they helped to maintain sanity. “Everyone knew absolutely all the details of me when they were released. As they told me every day they told personal stories and the companions repeated them. In addition, when they had strength – because they only ate a piece of bread pita to distribute among all – they toured the cell for hours,” recalls their mother.
He adds that his son occupies his time imagining himself sitting on his piano. Alon slides his fingers on his torso imagining that it is his keyboard so that the terrifying silence and pain is less. Con war, again, in a high beak, Idit takes a breath and looks at the piano again.