‘First Saturday with no one coming home’: Freed hostage Romi Gonen says deal must not end

1 March 2025, 2:23 pm

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Romi Gonen in an undated photo after her release from captivity, uploaded to social media on February 5, 2025. (Instagram)

Romi Gonen, freed for Gaza captivity on January 19 at the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, writes on Instagram: “It’s the first Saturday since my return that no brothers and sisters of ours are coming home. The feelings are difficult, and there’s a tightness in my throat. Fifty-nine hostages are still held captive and waiting to return home.”

“I was there, I know — they have no time,” she writes. The deal and releases “must not stop. We have to get them all home — the living to their families and the fallen to eternal rest.”

Gonen adds: “It’s sad that even after hostages have come out and the entire world saw their state, we still need to fight for the obvious. Continue to fight, continue to pray — in the end, good always wins.”