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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Former hostage Romi Gonen: Every explosion in Gaza further shatters hostages’ hopes
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Romi Gonen (right) and her mother, Meirav Leshem Gonen, embrace after Romi's return from Hamas captivity, January 19, 2025. (IDF)
Former hostage Romi Gonen laments “a difficult morning with the expansion of the fighting in Gaza.”
Gonen, who was freed from captivity on January 19 at the start of the now-defunct ceasefire, writes on Instagram: “Every explosion shatters the hostages’ hopes a little more. I was there. I know.”
Gonen adds: “I beg of the decision-makers. Don’t wait another moment. Bring back all 59 hostages before the Festival of Freedom.”
She is referring to Passover, which begins on April 12.
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