Naama Levy, one of the four female IDF soldiers who were released from Hamas Captivity on Saturday, speaks out for the first time.
“After 477 days I am finally home,” Levy wrote on Instagram. “I am safe and protected, surrounded by family and friends, and I feel better by the day.”
In the post Levy expressed her gratitude to ‘Israeli combat soldiers and the Israeli people’, and said she saw how they fought for her release. ‘Thank you all. I love you, “Levy wrote.
Brought hostage from Naema Levy sees her parents for the first time in 477 days after she was violently abducted by Hamas terrorists on 7 October 2023. (IDF spokesperson)
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists kidnapped the levy alongside Liri Albag, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Agam Berger. All girls, apart from Berger, were released as part of the Stako -Nijdoer van Israel and Hamas.
Levy revealed that she was usually alone for the first 50 days of captivity. However, once she was reunited with the other soldiers who were taken from her base, they stayed together and strengthened each other every day to our release and also afterwards. “
“We are waiting for Agami and the rest of the hostages to return so that we can complete the recovery process.”
Berger, who mentioned Levy in the post, is expected to be released on Thursday together with Arbel Yehout and an unnamed male hostage.
From left to right: Daniella Gilboa, Karina Arieev, Liri Albag, Naama Levy. (Handout/bring them home now)
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A video of levy on the day she was abducted went viral. She was seen in a black shirt and with blood -driven gray training pants while an armed man pulls her out of a jeep. Her ankles cut, Levy clearly had trouble walking after her apparently violent kidnapping. Levy became a symbol for the plight situation of the female hostages and victims of Hamas’ surprise attacks.
A woman stands next to a poster with an image of the Israeli soldier Naama tax as supporters of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly 7 October 2023, Attack Stage A Performance called for her release in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 19, 2024. (Reuters/Violeta Santos Moura)
In an essay of November 2023 for The free pressLevy’s mother, Ayelet Levy Shachhar, emphasized that although the video of her daughter’s kidnapping was seen around the world, it was “completely not representative of the life she had led until October 7” “”
“When she is released, I pray that the image of her abduction, and the experience of what that image represents, is not how she will see the world,” Shachar wrote at the time.
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On Levy, Albag, Gilboa and Ariev’s release, the Highnesses and Missage Families forum Headquarters said that “their return today represents a moment of light in the darkness, a moment of hope and triumph of the mind, while serving as a painful memory To the urgency to bring back the 90 hostages who are still in Gaza. “
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More than 15 months after the Israel-Hamas war, which started with the brutal surprise attacks on October 7, 2023, dozens of hostages remain in Gaza.
