From ‘I defeated captivity,’ says ex-hostage Omer Wenkert
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Freed hostage Omer Wenkert flies with his parents Niva and Shai to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, February 22, 2025. (IDF Spokesperson's Office)
Captivity survivor Omer Wenkert publishes a series of Instagram Stories, saying that the first thing he told his mother when he was freed on Saturday was: “I defeated captivity.”
“Last Saturday, after a struggle that seemed endless, I got to receive my life and freedom back, and this is my time to join the struggle for the return of my brothers who were left behind,” he says.
“Here I am — I won’t hide that everything is different, complicated and confusing,” Wenkert writes. “But I am still me. Hope we will meet again on the [dance] floor.
“WE WILL DANCE AGAIN,” he writes in English.
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