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Freed hostage Maya Regev takes first steps as she recovers from Oct. 7 injuries, captivity

7 August 2024, 9:31 am 3 Edit

Freed hostage Maya Regev successfully walks with the help of crutches as she recovers from injuries sustained in Hamas’s October 7 massacre, medical negligence during her time held captive in Gaza and subsequent surgeries to repair the damage.

Regev, 21, was abducted along with her brother Itay, 19, and their friends Omer-Shem Tov and Ori Danino from the Supernova music festival on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel, murdering some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

At the music festival, terrorists massacred 364 people, gang-raped others, and abducted dozens to Gaza, among them the Regevs, who were both shot in the leg as they tried to escape the carnage.

The siblings were among 105 civilians released during a weeklong truce in late November, after weeks of captivity in Gaza.

Regev said that she returned from Gaza with many infections, a fungus growing inside her bone, and other signs of medical negligence. Eight months after her release, her road to recovery remains long.

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