Kobi Ohel, father of Hamas hostage Alon Ohel, at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on February 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The father of Alon Ohel, who has been held hostage for nearly 700 days since he was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, pleads for the government and Israelis to fight for his son’s release.
“Alon is in extremely difficult conditions — wounded, surviving and fighting for almost 700 days,” Kobi Ohel tells the Kan public broadcaster.
“I ask our leadership to fight for his life, just as Alon is surviving and fighting for his life,” he says. “Alon is a citizen of this country. He deserves to have his life saved along with the other hostages who need to come back.”
“I call on the citizens of the state – do not be indifferent. Our existence, our mutual guarantee, our understanding that the State of Israel is the safest place for us as its citizens is important, and this is why the state was established,” he says.
“Look at your children, you know where they are. I don’t know where Alon is,” he says. “I know that he is captive in difficult conditions, and is waiting for his life to be saved.”
Freed hostages have told the family that Ohel has had shrapnel stuck in his eye, shoulder, and arm since his abduction, that he is bound in chains, and that he has received almost no food.
Alon Ohel, taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova desert rave (Courtesy)
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