Released hostage is in mortal danger
After seven weeks in the hands of Hamas, Elma Avraham is released along with 16 other Israeli hostages. However, this does not mean salvation for the 84-year-old artist: she is in intensive care and doctors fear for her life.
Following her release by the radical Islamic Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli artist Elma Avraham has not yet been rescued: The 84-year-old is in intensive care and her life is in danger, the director of the Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, Schlomi Codisch, announced in the evening.
The 84-year-old was released on Sunday along with 16 other hostages in the Gaza Strip. She was immediately taken to the hospital by helicopter. Because she had not received any care during her hostage situation since 7 October, she now had to be stabilized. "Her life is in danger," said the clinic director. The old lady, an artist, had been abducted from her kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel during the brutal attack by the radical Islamic group Hamas.
According to US President Joe Biden, the hostages released from the Gaza Strip on Sunday include a four-year-old girl who has both Israeli and US citizenship. "She is free and she is now in Israel," the president said during a speech in the US state of Massachusetts. However, he added: "She has suffered a terrible trauma."
Witness how parents were killed
Little Abigail was taken hostage from Israel to the Gaza Strip on October 7 along with around 240 other people by the radical Islamic group Hamas. According to White House adviser Jake Sullivan, the girl "watched her parents being killed in front of her" during the Islamists' brutal raid on Israeli villages. Held hostage, the girl turned four on Friday, the president said.
According to Israeli reports, Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people in Israel on October 7 and took 240 others hostage in the Gaza Strip, many of them women and children.
Israel then declared war on the Palestinian organization and launched massive attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip from the air and on the ground. According to Hamas, which cannot be independently verified, more than 15,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since then.
The release of Elma Avraham and other Israeli hostages by Hamas in the Gaza Strip brought no relief, as the 84-year-old artist remains critically ill and her life is in danger due to lack of medical care during her captivity.
The tragic incident of hostage-taking in Israel, perpetrated by Hamas, claimed the lives of many and left 240 individuals, including children, captive in the Gaza Strip.
The radical Islamic group Hamas, responsible for the abductions in the Gaza Strip, has been accused of taking hostages and using them as bargaining chips in the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Source: www.ntv.de
