Released hostage Sharon Aloni Cunio pleads with government to secure release of the rest, including her relatives

Released hostage Sharon Aloni Cunio speaks at the Tel Aviv rally calling for the release of the abductees still held by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.

“My life stopped on October 7. I never imagined the disaster that happened on that day,” she says. “On the way to captivity, I saw things that I’ll never stop seeing. My twins, Emma and Yuli, 3, had zero tools to deal with this.”

“Every moment in the safe room [at her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where they hid on October 7] was an eternity. We left the room to die quickly,” she adds. “Fifty-two days in which we didn’t know if we would live. Fifty-two days of no night or day. Fifty-two days which we didn’t know if they were really 52 days. My husband David has been there for 78 days and every day he doesn’t know if he’ll live or die.”

Also still held hostage are husband’s brother Ariel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yehud and the latter’s brother, Dolev Yehud.

“I turn to the war cabinet — Emma and Yuli suffered enough,” she says. “I ask that returning the captives be the top priority, now, not in another year.”