Idit Ohel, the mom of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, urgently pleaded for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to safe the discharge of the remaining Oct. 7 captives held by Hamas amid fears the present ceasefire deal is disintegrating.
“They haven’t any extra time. And please do not return to conflict. Please. As a result of if that occurs, if we return to conflict, the hostages may die. The hostages which might be alive may die,” she informed Fox Information Digital. “That is what occurred final time. Final time we noticed that after the hostages got here out and conflict began, so many hostages died and had been murdered by Hamas. So we can’t let this occur. Please do the whole lot in your energy and do one thing for my son. He is within the tunnels. He is crying for assist.”
Idit Ohel mentioned she obtained affirmation that her son remains to be alive from launched hostages Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, two of the three gaunt, frail-looking Israelis compelled to talk Saturday throughout a Hamas hand-over ceremony in Gaza.
The mom mentioned the launched hostages, who had been held together with her son for a part of their almost 500 days in captivity, informed her that Alon Ohel is unable to see out of a watch after being struck by shrapnel when Hamas was closing in on Oct. 7, 2023. Alon Ohel, a civilian, was attending the Nova music competition when terrorists attacked, and he took cowl in a bomb shelter. Hamas pounded the shelter with grenades and gunfire, and he “was taken, wounded, with blood throughout him,” Idit Ohel mentioned.
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A placard of Alon Ohel seen throughout a rally marking his twenty fourth birthday in Tel Aviv. (Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)
Alon Ohel’s ancestors survived the Holocaust, together with his great-grandfather who weighed simply 30 kilos [about 66 pounds] when he was launched from the Auschwitz focus camp, Idit Ohel mentioned. “So if he was alive right now, he would in all probability die immediately simply realizing that his great-grandson within the 12 months of 2025 is ravenous,” she mentioned. “Alon has these genes. So he is combating. He is combating for his life daily.”
Underneath the deal, one other three hostages had been as a consequence of be launched by subsequent Saturday, however Hamas mentioned Monday that the group wouldn’t allow them to go, accusing Israel of violating phrases of the ceasefire settlement.
Considerations that combating will resume are rising. Trump has since mentioned that Hamas should launch all remaining 76 hostages by midday Saturday, or he would demand the ceasefire deal be canceled and “let all hell get away.” Netanyahu backed the demand.
Israeli media is reporting that Trump’s envoy to the Center East, Steve Witkoff, is being dispatched to Israel and Qatar this week to stop the ceasefire deal from unraveling. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is predicted in Israel on Saturday.
To Trump and Netayanhu immediately, Idit Ohel mentioned, “Do one thing and produce them house. Please. Please.”
Idit Ohel speaks to the group throughout a Tel Aviv rally marking the twenty fourth Birthday of her son Alon Ohel who’s held hostage by Hamas. (Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)
“Give him an opportunity. It is insufferable. One thing has to alter. It’s important to do the whole lot in your energy to convey him house to me, to his household,” she mentioned. “There’s nonetheless hostages alive. There’s nonetheless hostages alive. Please. Please, do one thing.”
Idit Ohel mentioned she discovered her son is being held in tunnels with out medical consideration and little meals and has been “tortured, chained and starved.”
“It is not humane. There’s a lot meals moving into Gaza, and he isn’t getting any of it,” she mentioned.
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“Alon, proper now as we converse, remains to be being not fed, sleeping on the ground, being chained, constrained. So he can’t transfer for 494 days,” Idit Ohel mentioned. “My son is vital. My son is barely an harmless civilian. He went to the Nova competition to have enjoyable. He is a pianist. He loves music. He did nothing mistaken to no one. We have to get him out now. He can’t proceed. That is humanitarian.”
Days earlier than Trump took workplace, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire settlement. Former President Joe Biden mentioned on the time that the primary part concerned a “surge of humanitarian help into Gaza” – one thing Idit Ohel harassed her son is just not getting.
She mentioned the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross “have by no means seen Alon and have by no means seen any of the hostages – [he] did not get any therapy.”
Israelis stand underneath placards with photographs of hostages throughout a rally in Tel Aviv marking the twenty fourth Birthday of Alon Ohel, who’s held by Hamas in Gaza. (Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)
“The place is he? Why is he not coming?” Idit Ohel added. “I don’t perceive it. I’ll by no means perceive it. That is mistaken. This isn’t ethical.”
Ohel rallied 1000’s in Tel Aviv over the weekend on her son’s twenty fourth birthday – the second birthday he has spent in captivity since the Oct. 7 assaults.
“I wished to say completely satisfied birthday to my son. I could not even discuss [to him] and see and listen to his voice,” she mentioned. “After I heard about his situation, I fainted … I have never been sleeping for days … I can’t management what Hamas is doing to my son.”
“Each mom on this world. Assume only for a second. If there’s one evening that your son or daughter would not eat, you may’t even stay with your self,” Ohel added. “My son has not been getting meals for 494 days.”
The mom additionally delivered a message on to her son.
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“In case you’re listening to me, you already know I like you and your father loves you. And we’re doing the whole lot in our energy to just remember to’re house alive. You are coming house. And there is so many individuals everywhere in the world and in Israel which might be with you and are praying for you,” Ohel mentioned, asking fellow musicians to play songs in her son’s honor within the coming days. “And you aren’t alone, Alon. You aren’t alone.”