Ex-hostage Emily Damari gets engaged to girlfriend Danielle Amit
Video shows freed captive proposing to her partner during party celebrating a year since she returned from Gaza
British-Israeli former Gaza hostage Emily Damari and her partner, influencer Danielle Amit, revealed their engagement on Thursday.
At a party marking a year since Damari’s release from captivity on January 19, 2025, the captivity survivor successfully proposed to her girlfriend, according to footage published on social media.
Before proposing to Amit, Damari gave remarks at the party in which she recognized Gali and Ziv Berman, her friends and Kibbutz Kfar Aza neighbors who were also abducted to Gaza during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack before being freed as part of the ceasefire that took effect in October.
“Before they came back, everything was different. I was torn up, sad and weak,” she said.
Damari and Amit first went public with their relationship last year, months after Damari was freed from the Gaza Strip.
In an interview last year, Damari said she hid her sexuality from her captors, saying her being gay would have been “worse than them knowing I was Jewish or Israeli.”
Big Mazal Tov to Emily Damari who got engaged to her partner, Daniel Amit ???? Emily popped the question during a celebration marking the 1 year anniversary of her release from Hams captivity. pic.twitter.com/KuPOsCzjru
— Elad Simchayoff (@Elad_Si) January 22, 2026
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