{"id":118704,"date":"2025-01-31T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118704"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:58:19","slug":"26-00-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118704","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Players Take Solidarity Trip to Israel, Advocate for Release of Hamas Hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Former NFL Players Take Solidarity Trip to Israel, Advocate for Release of Hamas Hostages<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tony Richardson, far left, and Nick Lowery, far right, posing for a photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog during their recent trip to Israel. Photo: The Office of the President of Israel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

During their time in Israel, Lowery and Richardson spoke with Yoni and Amit Levy, father and brother of Naama Levy, who has been held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip for over 450 days. Naama, 20, is one of five young women kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas-led terrorists from the IDF base in Nahal Oz near the Israel-Gaza border. She was filmed being dragged into a jeep by terrorists, with her hands tied behind her back, during her abduction. Her ankles were cut, her face was bleeding, and her sweatpants were blood-stained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a father, nothing to be proud more than to have a daughter like Naama,\u201d Yoni told the NFL legends in a video that was shared on social media. \u201cShe\u2019s quite shy, but very, very strong inside. It gives us a lot of hope that she is surviving.\u201d Amit, 22, further told Lowery and Richardson: \u201cI think it\u2019s so important what you are doing because it\u2019s been so long, it\u2019s easy for people to move on. It\u2019s not just a poster. [She\u2019s] my sister and she has dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, the athletes expressed hope that Naama will return home soon. They also said they will do what they can to speak up in support of the hostages. \u201cOne of our goals is to help her dream and give voice to it,\u201d said Lowery, 68. \u201cThe connection with Naama as a triathlete, to work through pain, to work through challenge \u2026 I hope that the athletes that are watching this \u2026 if Naama can\u2019t speak up for herself, we must speak for her and the others. She will be back. We love this place. We love the people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lowery and Richardson also visited the soccer field in the Druze-majority town of Majdal Shams in northern Israel, where 12 Druze children and teenagers were killed, and at least 42 were injured, by a Hezbollah rocket on July 27, 2024. During the stop they met with 13-year-old Jwan Ibraheem, who survived the rocket explosion and is having a difficult time moving on with his life after blaming himself for not being able to save his best friend who was killed by the Hezbollah rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former NFL teammates also toured Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, and met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana, and IDF soldiers. \u201cWe will be a voice to those who don\u2019t have one,\u201d they told Herzog. They also took a tour of religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem, such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall, and Lowery was re-baptized at the Sea of Galilee. They also stopped by the StandWithUs center in Jerusalem, where they learned more about the history of Israel and antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former NFL Players Take Solidarity Trip to Israel, Advocate for Release of Hamas Hostages Shiryn Ghermezian Tony Richardson, far left, and Nick Lowery, far right, posing for a photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog during their recent trip to Israel. Photo: The Office of the President of Israel During their time in Israel, Lowery and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118704"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118810,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118704\/revisions\/118810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}