“For me, time has frozen”: Mother of an Israeli hostage continues to fight for his release

In a Tel Aviv courtyard, as the sun sets, for a moment everything seems so normal. A girl pulls up a chair and sits next to her mother, touching her colored paper next to her coffee mug. But she only has one minute to spare. She must return to her duty: rescuing her son who is being held hostage in Gaza. The girl’s brother is 24-year-old Matan Zangauker, who was abducted along with his girlfriend from the kibbutz where they were staying during the October 7 attack by Hamas. His mother, Einav, last spoke to him at 10:08 that morning. He had sent her messages on WhatsApp saying: “They are breaking into houses”, “I love you”, “Don’t cry” and finally “They are breaking in”. For ten dramatic days, as authorities scrambled to gain control amid the shock and chaos of the attack that killed 1,200 […]
Source: News Beast

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