Former Hamas hostages Emily Damari and Romi Gonen appeared on the music department of Military Radio, Galgalatz, on Monday, the place they mentioned their experiences throughout their captivity, together with once they first realized about Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar’s dying.
“We noticed Sinwar on TV, within the well-known image of his, along with his good tooth,” Damari recalled.
“I requested the terrorist, ‘What’s written on TV?'” Gonen added. “He stated, ‘Your military killed 20 kids.’ I informed him, ‘However there is a image of Sinwar.'”
“‘No, no, it is not Sinwar!’ he informed us,” Damari continued.
“After which he informed us, ‘Your mendacity army says it killed Sinwar,’ and we thought, ‘Oh, cool!'” Gonen expanded.
“Ultimately, they admitted Sinwar was useless, and stated ‘Could Allah have mercy on him,’ and after we have been left alone, Romi and I’d say ‘they actually killed him,'” Damari recounted.
‘You Have Me’: Singing their track in Arabic throughout captivity
Since their launch from captivity, each Damari and Gonen have repeatedly talked about how they turned inseparable and relied on one another to make it by what the terrorists have been doing to them.
In the course of the interview, Damari defined how they sang “You Have Me” by Moshe Peretz to one another, studying a few of it in Arabic.
“We needed to whisper it,” Damari continued, noting that they sang as a result of “there’s not a lot else to do throughout captivity. That is the reality!”
The host requested if they might have been allowed to sing louder in the event that they sang in Arabic somewhat than Hebrew. “No, as a result of we’re girls,” Damari defined.
Damari: Couldn’t cease listening to October 7 bloodbath victims names
Damari recalled listening to the names of the victims of the October 7 bloodbath throughout an in a single day broadcast between October 6-7, 2024.
“We have been in some sort of transition between residences. The army was near Jabalya – we have been near Jabalya, they have been transferring us, and the whole lot was occurring directly.”
“I used to be sitting by the radio and couldn’t cease listening to the printed of the names [of the victims],” Damari defined.
“I sat with a paper and pen and managed to file the names of 44 victims from Kibbutz Kfar Aza,” she continued.
Damari defined how they needed to swap locations, however continued including to the record from the place the earlier particular person left off.
“We took time to know what number of have been killed the place – what number of on the Nova music pageant, what number of at Kfar Aza,” Gonen elaborated.
‘What occurred to my dwelling, to our buddies?’
“I requested to have a look at publications so I may see what occurred to my dwelling,” Damari recalled.
Gonen “needed to seek out out what occurred to her buddies on the get together, however I needed to seek out out what occurred to my dwelling,” she added.
“I couldn’t consider what they did to my dwelling, and I stated to Romi, ‘I may go away the Gaza Strip now, and in 25 minutes I’d be in my dwelling. Do you perceive that?'” she concluded.
Damari, Gonen had suicide pact throughout captivity
In July, Damari, who additionally holds British citizenship, informed The Every day Mail that she was so mistreated by Hamas terror captors that she thought of suicide.
“They have been the worst individuals – the worst household,” she stated. “They’d make enjoyable of us and snicker at us. They’d inform us: ‘No person cares about you.’ They’d conceal meals from us and inform us we have been by no means leaving Gaza.”
She defined that she had made a suicide pact with Gonen, with whom she was held. The pair had determined to both escape or finish their lives to place a cease to the cruelty.
Gonen was interviewed by Channel 12’s “Uvda” about her experiences in Gaza captivity, in a two-part broadcast on December 25 and January 1.
In the course of the “Uvda” broadcast, she recounted how terrorists repeatedly sexually abused her and described her restoration course of since her launch.
The 2 have been launched from captivity on January 19, 2025, together with fellow hostage Doron Steinbrecher, after being held by terrorists within the Gaza Strip for 471 days.
Jerusalem Submit Employees contributed to this report.
