{"id":109168,"date":"2023-12-09T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109168"},"modified":"2023-12-09T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T07:00:03","slug":"14-00-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109168","title":{"rendered":"The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d4516ad-f18c-4896-a7e4-bc42f26eb781_874x1228.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"15%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-woman-in-the-hamas-video-is-my-daughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ayelet Levy Shachar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>There are 17 young females still being held hostage. One of them is my girl, Naama. And time is running out.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_652,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ed134f6-3ddc-40a0-9e38-aec76de58217_1000x750.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Naama Levy, 19, was captured on October 7 and last seen in a video released by Hamas. (Photo via X)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">You have seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy. Everyone has. You have seen her dragged by her long brown hair from the back of a Jeep at gunpoint, somewhere in Gaza, her gray sweatpants covered in blood. You may have perhaps noticed that her ankles are cut, that she\u2019s barefoot and limping. She is seriously injured. She is frightened. And I, her mother, am helpless in these moments of horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On October 7, Naama had been sleeping at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, and was awakened by the chaotic sound of a missile barrage. At 7 a.m., she sent me a WhatsApp message: \u201cWe\u2019re in the safe room. I\u2019ve never heard anything like this.\u201d That was the last I heard from her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The next day, I saw the video, but the woman in the footage was so bloodied and disheveled it was hard to tell if it really was her. Naama\u2019s father called and confirmed the terrible news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Before that day, every video our family had taken of Naama was joyful\u2014dancing with friends, laughing with her three siblings, and simply enjoying life. Naama is only 19, but she\u2019ll always be my baby girl. A girl who truly believes in the good of all people. She enjoys athletics and dreams of a career in diplomacy, and her greatest passion is helping those in need. As a girl, she was a member of the \u201cHands of Peace\u201d delegation, which brings together American, Israeli, and Palestinian youths to promote global social change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But now, one video, totally unrepresentative of the life she had led until October 7, is how the world knows her.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018We know it\u2019s hell over there, for a young girl like Naama it\u2019s even more critical\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMl2OzAqvC4\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-substack-content=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It has been deeply disturbing to see the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/un-ignores-systematic-rape-of-israeli-women-by-hamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/global-womens-rights-groups-silent-as-israeli-women-testify-about-rapes-by-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feminist organizations<\/a>\u00a0refuse to acknowledge that Hamas raped and committed appalling sexual crimes against women, simply because the victims are Jewish. It took two months for some to finally admit the scale and the brutality of the horror. Meanwhile, Israeli experts are gathering the evidence. Shari, a volunteer worker at the Shura military morgue,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/11\/25\/israel-hamas-rape-sexual-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0about what she documented: \u201cWe saw many women with bloody underwear, with broken bones, broken legs, broken pelvises.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The same monsters who committed those crimes are holding my daughter hostage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There are seventeen young women still in captivity. They range in age from 18 to 26. I think of what they, and my Naama, could be subjected to at every moment of the day. Each minute is an eternity in hell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On Monday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/us-official-hamas-not-freeing-women-hostages-so-they-wont-tell-what-happened-to-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>\u00a0that one of the reasons Hamas doesn\u2019t want to release the young female hostages \u201cis they don\u2019t want these women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Everyone knows exactly what he means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What would you do if your daughter were being held hostage by violent rapists and murderers for two months? Perhaps the better question is:\u00a0<em>What wouldn\u2019t you do?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Over the last week and a half, dozens of hostages were released. The stories they\u2019ve told about captivity are chilling.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/28\/middleeast\/thomas-hand-emily-hostage-intl\/index.html?Date=20231128&amp;Profile=CNN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emily Hand<\/a>, a girl of only nine years, told her father she thought she had been held underground by Hamas for a year.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/30\/news\/hamas-releases-propaganda-video-of-israeli-hostages-accusing-netanyahu-of-wanting-to-kill-us-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Aloni<\/a>\u00a0was held along with her young daughter Emilia and was forced to participate in a hostage video in which she begged for their release. In it, she famously shrieked the word\u00a0<em>now<\/em>, in Hebrew\u00a0<em>achshav<\/em>. The way Daniel uttered that last word,\u00a0<em>now<\/em>, that primal scream, is what lies in the hearts of every hostage, and every hostage family. It is the sound that rings in the depths of my soul every moment of every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In addition to being Naama Levy\u2019s mother, I\u2019m also a primary care doctor and the team physician for Israel\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team. I work with young women, and I understand the medical risks of spending every day in darkness, without enough nutrition or medical care or even basic hygiene. As a mother, I simply worry: Did my daughter\u2019s captors give her a clean change of clothes, or is she still sitting in the same bloody sweatpants she was abducted in?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There\u2019s a reason why women and children were prioritized first for release: younger women are at greater risk for further trauma. Just as women and girls are more vulnerable to more forms of violence, they are also more vulnerable to suffering from infections and pregnancy from sexual violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The longer Naama is held in captivity, the more violence she is subjected to, the more likely she will suffer the consequences of lifelong post-traumatic stress. When she is released, I pray that the image of her abduction, and the experience of what that image represents, isn\u2019t how she comes to see the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Meanwhile, time is passing through an hourglass, and the sands are not infinite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The seventeen female hostages are not bargaining chips to be debated by diplomats. They are daughters, and one of them is mine. My primal scream should be the scream of mothers everywhere. Bring her home now!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" data-substack-content=\"\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-substack-content=\"\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Ayelet Levy-Shachar<\/strong> is Naama\u2019s mother. She is a primary care physician for families and for the Israeli women\u2019s soccer team. She is a mother of four and lives in Ra\u2019anana.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter Ayelet Levy Shachar There are 17 young females still being held hostage. One of them is my girl, Naama. And time is running out. Naama Levy, 19, was captured on October 7 and last seen in a video released by Hamas. 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