Israel Diamond Exchange Demands Hostage Release
February 08, 24
(IDEX Online) - A hostage held by Hamas for 50 days told Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) of her ordeal at an event calling for an immediate release of the remaining 136 abductees.
Danielle Aloni, 45, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her sister's home at Kibbutz Nir Oz, together with her six-year-old daughter, Emilia.
She spoke to members of the IDE on Monday at a bourse event organized jointly with the Hostage and Missing Families Forum to express solidarity and raise awareness.
Conditions were dreadful, she said. Danielle and her daughter were watched over constantly by Hamas guards and there was desperately little air, light, food or sanitation facilities.
"Hamas continues to hold in captivity the injured, the aged, the ill and there is no medical care," she said.
"We must rescue the remaining hostages from the Hamas hell before it is too late."
Members of IDE lost nine family members in the Hamas massacre on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed, and during the ongoing war in Gaza.
In addition, two IDE members have relatives still being held by Hamas - a son, Edan Alexander, a 20-year-old soldier abducted hostage from his post. And a father, Yoram Metzger, 80, who was kidnapped from his kibbutz.
Pics show Danielle Aloni and daughter Emilia pictured after their release, courtesy Schneider Children's Medical Center.