Gaza hostage’s daughter walks through Hamas tunnel installation: ‘I’m shaking. They haven’t left this for 100 days’

Ela Ben Ami, whose parents were taken hostage from their home in Kibbutz Be’eri by Hamas terrorists on October 7, visits the reconstruction of a Gaza tunnel at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.

Her mother Raz was released during the November temporary ceasefire, but her father Ohad remains in Gaza. The two were kidnapped separately and were not held together.

“I am shaking. For nearly 100 days [the hostages] haven’t been able to leave this,” she tells Channel 12, holding a poster of her father.

Many of the hostages are believed to be held in Hamas tunnels deep under Gaza.

“I know that my [father] is injured. He has vertigo but I don’t know now what medications he would need,” she says in reference to the announcement yesterday that vital medications will be transferred to the hostages in the coming days.

“I don’t know if she went through this,” Ela says of her mother. “She hasn’t told me. But I now know why she can’t sleep at night, she is in a terrible condition,” she says.

Ela Ben Ami calls on government members to come to Tel Aviv and experience the tunnel installation and understand why a deal must be made immediately for the hostages to be released.

She also asks for the public to come to the square from 8 p.m. this evening for 24 hours of events to mark 100 days since the hostages were seized during the brutal onslaught in which terrorists slaughtered some 1,200 and kidnapped approximately 240 more.

“I call on everyone to come to the square, to stand with us so that we aren’t alone,” she says.