Ex-captive Rom Braslavski at Hostages Square: ‘We’re marking 1,000 days, but for me it’s been an eternity’

2 July 2026, 8:54 pm

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Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad hostage Rom Braslavski speaks at a memorial event marking 1,000 days since October 7, 2023, at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, on July 2, 2026. (Danor Aharon/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad hostage Rom Braslavski addresses protesters at the Hostages Square event marking 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre.

“I was held in Gaza for two whole years. We’re marking 1,000 days, but for me it’s been an eternity,” he says. “I went through 1,000 lifetimes in 1,000 days.”

He says that although the war against Hamas is over, his “personal war,” of rehabilitation and his war against PTSD, “continues every single day.”