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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Mother of British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari: ‘I fear that she’s dead’
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The mother of British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari says she is worried for her daughter’s life.
“I fear that she’s dead,” Mandy Damari tells the BBC. “And if she’s not dead, she’s not getting enough food to eat, she’s not able to wash herself, drink water, she could be ill.”
“She’s suffering from gunshot wounds to her hand and her leg… I worry every day, I worry every second because in the next second, she could be murdered, just because she’s there,” she says.
She says she welcomes the declaration by US President-elect Donald Trump that there’ll be “hell to pay” if the hostages aren’t released.
“It made me a bit more optimistic,” she says.
Emily Damari was taken hostage to the Gaza Strip on October 7 by Hamas-led terrorists who attacked Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Out of 37 residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza’s “young generation” neighborhood, 11 were murdered and seven were kidnapped and taken to the Strip.
In January 2024, released hostage Dafna Elyakim, 15, said in an Israeli television interview that she and her younger sister, Ella Elyakim, were taken into Hamas’s underground tunnels, where they met five other female hostages who haven’t yet returned — Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Romy Gonen, Agam Berger and Damari.
The Times of Israel Community.