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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
‘He’s aged 10 years’: Family horrified at clip of hostage Braslavski, lack of contact from authorities
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Tami Braslavski reacts with fury to news that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group has published a video of her hostage son, Rom Braslavski, noting that she found out about it from the news rather than from state officials.
“Horrifying! A shame for the State of Israel. Shocking that I need to see it on Telegram like everyone. Not [IDF hostage point person] Nitzan Alon, not [government hostage point person] Gal Hirsch, not [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], nobody’s phoning us,” she is quoted as saying by Ynet.
“I don’t even recognize my son. He has aged 10 years. This isn’t my Rom. He’s tough, and he looks terrible. If they broke Rom, they’ll break everyone,” she charges.
Addressing Netanyahu, she adds: “His son [Yair] is sitting in Miami and drinking a Margarita on the beach while my son is underground, and he doesn’t have time to call to update me? They know there’s a video and can’t even find the time to talk to me?”
Rom’s brother Amit also assails the government on Instagram for its lack of communication, lamenting that “we are abandoned every day anew with shocking and shameful conduct.”
Despite the extensive media comments on it, the family hasn’t approved the publication of the video itself or screenshots of it.
The Times of Israel Community.