Freed hostage Elma Avraham leaving hospital after 5-month recovery

Elma Avraham, an 85-year-old woman who was in critical condition when she was freed after 51 days as a hostage in Hamas captivity, is finally leaving the hospital where she has been recovering from her ordeal for five months.

Footage from Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba shows Avraham alongside hospital staff ahead of her release.

“I had the strength to return to you, to see all of you, and mainly my children and family,” she tells reporters, adding that the remaining 132 hostages “must be freed now.”

נס רפואי/אנושי. אלמה אברהם בת ה – 85 שנחטפה מנחל עוז והייתה 51 ימים בשבי בתנאי עינויים, הוחזרה במצב אנוש על סף מוות – משוחררת כעת מבית החולים סורוקה, אחרי כחמישה חודשי אישפוז pic.twitter.com/zJnd2Cmbm8

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