Sharon Aloni-Cunio, who Hamas terrorists abducted alongside her husband David and their 3-year-old twin daughters Ella and Yuli, breaks down in tears as she describes the trials of captivity and her fear that her husband will not survive.
“David’s life is a Russian roulette,” says Aloni-Cunio, who returned to Israel with her daughters during a weeklong hostage release and truce deal in late November.
Thousands at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square hear her plea to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a negotiation team to Cairo to work out a deal with Hamas, and respond by chanting “Go bring them back.”
Carmit Palty Katzir, whose brother Elad is held hostage, addresses Netanyahu, telling him: My brother has no time for political maneuvers.”
She calls on Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot and Yoav Gallant of the war cabinet to “not be a fig leaf” for the government.
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