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October 7 Hamas Attacks: How Life Changed at Israel's Borders, One Year
Pushing For Return of Israel's Hostages
October 7 hangs heavy in the air
across Israel, relegating any kind of social recovery there, and with its
neighbors, far out of reach. "We are still in the trauma," Michael Milshtein,
expert in Palestinian studies at Tel Aviv University and retired head of the
Palestinian Affairs department of the Israel Defense Forces' military
intelligence body, told Newsweek. "I don't think we are able to cure ourselves,
or think about reconstruction or coexistence."
This is certainly true for the
families of the hostages. At the time of writing, 101 remain in Gaza. More than
100 were brought back during a brief ceasefire in November last year, and
Israeli military operations have sporadically rescued a handful of hostages or
recovered bodies of those killed in captivity.
Nobody involved in trying to
get them released thought the process would last more than a few weeks, said
Daniel Shek, a former Israeli diplomat and part of the Hostages and Missing
Families Forum—a civilian, volunteer-led effort to return the hostages.
Then-Israeli diplomat Daniel Shek, left, with European Jewish Congress' Pierre
Besnainou in November 2006 in Paris. Shek said of the Israeli hostages still in
Gaza, "We will not allow these people to be forgotten." JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty
A
year on, "the worst enemy of these people are obviously the captors, who are
keeping them in the tunnels of Hamas," Shek told reporters at the organization's
headquarters in Tel Aviv. "But the second worst enemy is forgetfulness. We will
not allow these people to be forgotten."
"It's been almost a year, and I
cannot describe what the families are going through," said Colette Avital, a
former Israeli ambassador to Portugal and member of the Israeli parliament, the
Knesset, who is also involved with the Forum. "We need to put as much pressure
as possible. Because time is running out. We don't know honestly how many of
them are still alive."
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