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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emine Sinmaz in Shefayim

‘We were constantly in terror’: Israeli hostage tells of captivity in Gaza

Chen Almog-Goldstein
Chen Almog-Goldstein: ‘They kept on telling us they’re not going to harm us and that we were very important to them.’ Photograph: Emine Sinmaz/The Guardian

Chen Almog-Goldstein refuses to forget her eldest daughter’s last moments. Yam, 20, was gasping for breath, having been shot in the face by Hamas gunmen, who minutes earlier had killed her father.

Almog-Goldstein, 49, did not see Yam or her husband, Nadav, again because she and her three surviving children were bundled into a car and abducted. During the seven-minute journey across the border into Gaza on 7 October, their two captors smiled and took photographs of the traumatised mother and children.

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