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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
‘I fought, and I fought, and I won’: Ex-hostage Omer Wenkert says Hamas release ceremony didn’t humiliate him
Former hostage Omer Wenkert thanks the crowd as he returns to his home in Gedera, March 4, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
Recently released hostage Omer Wenkert, who spent over 500 days in Hamas captivity before being released last month, gives his first interview since his release, speaking to Channel 12’s Almog Boker.
He says that the release ceremony held by Hamas terrorists did not humiliate him.
“I fought, and I fought, and I fought, and I won,” says Wenkert, who was kidnapped from a bomb shelter on the side of the road near the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023.
He says that one of the first things he told his mother upon his release was that he had “defeated captivity.”
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