The hostage who escaped from captivity in Gaza and wandered for 4 days before being handed back to Hamas

Roni Krivoy, 25, was released on November 26 after being held hostage for 50 days. Hamas in Loop. Because of his age, he was not among those eligible for exchange with Palestinian prisoners in prisons in Israel, but his dual Russian-Israeli citizenship worked in his favor. Surprisingly, the Palestinian Islamist group let him go as a gesture of recognition to the president Vladimir Putin and “the Russian position of support for the Palestinian cause.”

After his release, he recounted details of his captivity that seem straight out of a movie: he said he escaped briefly to hide in the ruins of Loop before being caught by civilians.

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Roni Krivoy was kidnapped while working as a sound engineer in the crowded Nova Festival, who was attacked by Hamas on October 7.

His job was to dismantle the stage and other equipment.

In accordance with IsraelHamas killed 364 people at that festival that took place near the border with Loop. It was one of the first places he attacked.

Images released by the young people themselves showed how at dawn on October 7, members of Hamas They approached the festival flying paraglidersthen they did it in trucks and motorcycles, to the confusion of the crowd who tried to escape in the midst of the confusion.

According to his family, Roni Krivoy He hid in some bushes, but was found by militiamen from Hamas and led to Loop.

Roni he was escaping from terrorists with a friend. They were separated when the Russian-Israeli decided to go into hiding. The friend stayed in contact with him until 10:30 a.m., when Roni told him that she could hear the attackers’ voices. At 10:40, the friend called again, but someone answered him in Arabic, he heard laughter and they hung up. From there the connection was completely cut off.

That October 7, according to figures from the Government of Israel, the Islamists took about 240 people hostage. While The total number of deaths in the south of Israeli territory rose to 1,200.

In Gaza, subjected to incessant bombardments

Already in an Israeli ground operation since October 27, 14,854 people have died, including 6,150 children under 18, according to the Hamas-ruled Ministry of Health.

After her release, Roni’s aunt, Yelena Magidtold the press of Israel that he had a half-hour conversation with his nephew where he told him details of his captivity and about how he escaped for a few days.

Magid revealed that Roni was being held by her captors in a building in Loop. But this building collapsed due to Israeli bombings. Several Islamists died in that action. Hamassaid.

Krivoy suffered a head injury during the building collapse.

“After the building collapsed, Roni managed to escape and for four days he was alone and hidden. He tried to flee and reach the border, but with no means of knowing where he was, he did not succeed… In the end, the Gazans captured him and took him back into the hands of the terrorists,” he explained.

“He tried to reach the border. But he didn’t have the ability to understand where he was or where he had to go, so he couldn’t move forward in the open field. She was completely alone,” Magid continued.

“I asked him, ‘How do you feel? Do you have nightmares? He replied: ‘Yes, I have nightmares from the party and the captivity, but that’s good, it means I’m handling it well.’”

When Magid was asked how Russian citizens helped RoniShe answered: “Ron’s family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1992, and he was born in Israel in 1998 and grew up here. His native language is Hebrew, his homeland is Israel. Her parents had lived in St. Petersburg and she took it upon herself to Ron got Russian citizenship when he was little. He is an Israeli citizen, and I believe that this division that was highlighted in the media – that of “13 kidnapped and one more” – is inappropriate, it hurts us, the citizens of Israel. We have been living in the country for more than 30 years, almost all our lives, our children were born and raised here.”

Cousin of kriboyAlex Magid, gave a similar account on Monday in an interview with Israel Army Radio.

The boy who “lived horrors” during his captivity

This Tuesday the release of hostages from Hamas in Loop and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, something that has already taken place during the last four days, in which 69 Israeli and foreign hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners were released.

Israel has kept the freed hostages away from the media, arguing that the priority is their physical and emotional recovery.

Their families are the ones who are telling details of the captivity.

It is the case of Deborah Cohen, aunt of 12-year-old French-Israeli teenager Eitan Yahalomi, who was released on Monday, who told the French network BFMTV what his nephew described to him about his captivity.

“Eitan lived horrors there… Some civilians beat him when he arrived at Loop, although “He is a 12 year old boy.”said the aunt.

He added that “Hamas forced him to watch” the crimes they committed and recorded on October 7 on Israeli soil.

“Every time a child cried, They threatened him with a gun to keep him quiet.”Cohen continued.

“He hoped they would treat him well. But apparently it wasn’t like that. “They are monsters.”said.

Deborah Cohen recalled that Eitan’s father is still in the hands of Hamas.