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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv

Freed Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel on Netanyahu’s unbearable strategy and waiting for her husband to come home

Aviva Siegel with hands clasped under chin looking pensive
Aviva Siegel was taken hostage with her husband by Hamas militants on 7 October and released after 51 days. Keith Siegel remains in captivity in Gaza along with 114 other hostages. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

A former hostage whose husband is still captive in Gaza said she does not expect to see him again unless Israel agrees a ceasefire deal.

Aviva Siegel was freed after 51 days in captivity, under a week-long agreement last November. Her fears for her husband, Keith Siegel, were sharpened by her own ordeal of hunger, deprivation, violence, isolation and psychological torture, she said.

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