Hostage’s wife: Our government is choosing not to bring the hostages home

Roughly 1,000 people have gathered at a solidarity rally for the Gaza border communities of Nir Oz and Be’eri which were the hardest hit during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.

Addressing the rally in Carmei Gat in central Israel is Avital Dekel Chen whose husband Sagui Dekel Chen is among the 100 hostages still being held in Gaza.

“How can it be that my daughters — who are fulfilling their commitment to hold on as tightly as possible amid all this madness — are met with a state that violates all its commitments to them, namely the most basic obligation to protect their well-being,” she says.

“Sagui and others are first and foremost fathers of small children, who need them every day. Children who are abused daily from the mere thought that their father is with terrorists – and yet the state chooses not to bring them home,” she laments.