To the world it’s Mother’s Day, but to me it’s day 583.
I will try my best today as I always do to be strong for my girls, to smile and say “soon” whenever they ask when daddy will come back from Gaza. But there is nothing meaningful about this day, or any day, until Omri is home.
📸 Alon Gilboa
Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival.
For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels.
So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.
This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities.
You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.
Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.
This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.
Heartbreaking and HORRIFYING!
ALON OHEL has been hold his entire time as a hostage, in Gaza, STARVING in CHAINS.
Several shrapnel wounds in his body since October 7th 2023 have NOT been treated and for a wonderful piano player, the ones in his eye may leave him permanently blind.
Eli Sharabi and Or Levy who looked like Holocaust survivors on their release, were held with him for the duration of their captivity and have said he is at risk of dying.
Alon’s mother is asking us all to REPOST and REPOST.
NO comments or likes are needed.
He needs our loud voices and the entire world, to shout out for him, protest against the horrific conditions he’s being held in plus insist upon and enable his release ASAP!
LET ALON OHEL GO NOW!
WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THESE BARBARIC ACTS?👇👇
@antonioguterres@PalestineRCS@UN
מזועזעים בצדק על כפיר ביבס ז''ל?
לא הרבה מכם שמעתם על מילה כהן מבארי, בת ה 9 חודשים.
מילה ז"ל נרצחה בדם קר ב 7/10, יחד עם אביה אוהד ז"ל.
מילה הייתה ילדה מדהימה, תמיד הייתה שמחה, כל הזמן מחייכת וצוחקת, פשוט נסיכה מושלמת. אין מישהו שלא התאהב בה והיה מוקסם ממנה.
לא נשכח ולא נסלח 💔
נתניהו מודה במו פיו: בחודש יולי יכולנו להחזיר 12-14 חטופים (ביניהן עדן ירושלמי וכרמל גת), ואני סירבתי.
זאת הודאה באחריות למותן.
אל תפקיר שם אפילו עוד חטוף אחד. את כולם - עכשיו.
While Netanyahu is in his luxury hotel in Washington, hostages are coming back looking like Holocaust survivors.
We are asking @realDonaldTrump and @SteveWitkoff to speed up the deal. We cannot count on our prime minister to save the remaining hostages.
This is what real results of famine and refusal to pass medicine and food look like
Look how Or, Ohad and Eli looked and how they look now
@ICRC, eternal shame on you