An Israeli hostage solely found his fiancee had survived the 7 October assaults after his launch on Saturday, Israeli media has reported.
Eliya Cohen had spent greater than 500 days in captivity fearing his bride-to-be, Ziv Abud, was lifeless. The final time that they had seen one another, they had been hiding in a shelter with family and mates after attending the Nova competition.
An emotive video taken by the Israeli Protection Forces reveals them embracing and bursting into tears after they first see one another.
Abud, who can barely communicate by her tears, tells Cohen he’s her love, her life and her darling. Then they gaze into one another’s eyes and, in between kisses, Cohen asks her how she is.
Whereas campaigning for Cohen’s launch final yr, Abud informed the Guardian: “Hamas threw 9 grenades into our shelter and I heard Eliya screaming and he informed me that he was harm and after two minutes I felt his arms slipping away as they pulled him away.”
She was buried beneath our bodies for six hours. When she was rescued, she discovered that Cohen was lacking and that her nephew and his associate had been shot lifeless subsequent to her within the shelter, which is now known as the “loss of life bunker” in Israel.
Of the 27 who hid there, 16 had been killed by Hamas, 4 had been taken hostage and the remaining had been rescued by Israeli troopers.
When she found that earlier than his abduction, Cohen had purchased an engagement ring and had been planning to suggest to her, Abud began to name herself his fiancee.
In January 2024, she informed the Guardian: “I don’t really feel alive now. I’m simply ready. Daily I’m simply ready for him, for the entire kidnapped. We will’t simply go on after they’re not residence,” she stated.
She wrote on Instagram: “I typically take into consideration the second you come. How will you react whenever you discover out that I’m alive?” A few of their mates died on 7 October and he or she frightened about how she would inform him what occurred. “What’s going to I inform you? How will I inform you about Amit, Yonatan, and [the] a whole bunch of our mates who’re now not alive?”
Cohen was reportedly held chained in a tunnel for many of his captivity along with Or Levy and El Sharabi, who has been launched, and Alon Ohel, who has not.
To this point, 25 Israeli captives have been launched in a fragile ceasefire deal that started final month. In whole, 33 Israelis – together with the stays of eight who’ve died or been killed in captivity – are anticipated to be handed over in change for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.
