The family of Sasha Trufanov, the hostage who was featured in a propaganda video released earlier today by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, say they are happy to see a sign of life and desperate for him to return home.
“To see him today on television is very happy, but also heartbreaking because he is still in captivity,” says his mother, Yelena. “I call on all decision makers, please do everything to bring him and all the hostages home now.”
Sasha’s girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, says “we are waiting for you to come home already, and we’re doing everything we can for it to happen soon.”
Yelena, Sapir, and Sasha’s grandmother, Irena, were all kidnapped along with him from Kibbutz Nir Oz and released in late November. His father, Vitaly Trufanov, was murdered in the Hamas onslaught.
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