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Saturday, February 8, 2025
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
‘Our father has emerged from the horror’: Freed hostage Ohad Ben Ami’s daughters excited to hug him after 491 days
The three daughters of Ohad Ben Ami, Ella, Natalie and Yuli, and his mother Esther, speak by phone with him after his release from Hamas captivity, February 8, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf / GPO)
The daughters of Ohad Ben Ami, who was freed from Gaza this morning after 491 days in captivity, release a statement from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, after they spoke with him by phone a short while after he crossed the border into Israel.
“Our father has emerged from the horror, and you can see the trauma he endured written on his face. But we are staying strong for him here, just as he stays strong for us, and soon we’ll be able to embrace him,” Yulie, Ella, and Natalie Ben Ami say in the statement shared by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
“We got our father back. Now we must not stop until the last hostage is returned.”
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