She and the surviving youngsters — one other daughter, Agam, 17, and two sons, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9 — have been launched in late November as a part of the trade of prisoners between Israel and Hamas that has since ceased.
In an interview this week, she shared particulars about her ordeal.
She stated she and the kids have been held collectively, handled “respectfully” and never bodily harmed. However she stated that over the course of assorted strikes throughout their captivity, she had met different hostages who have been badly handled, together with two ladies who stated they have been sexually abused.
Principally, they have been held in a room in an condo in Gaza, she stated, with the home windows closed aside from a little bit of recent air within the early mornings. However the closely armed captors additionally moved Ms. Goldstein-Almog and her youngsters to completely different residences, tunnels, a mosque, even a destroyed grocery store, she stated.
With the Israeli army pounding Gaza, every switch was terrifying, and the lads holding them, she stated, didn’t at all times appear to know what to do.
Describing one transfer, she stated: “It was the middle of the night. Everything was dark. They started deliberating among themselves. I could see the helplessness on their faces.”
“When we were out into the street, in total darkness, there was a shot above us,” she continued. “We were pressed against the wall, and I could see a laser pointer, as if we were being targeted from above.”
And he or she was considering: That’s our air power up there.
“It was crazy,” she stated, “this absurdity.”
