On this screengrab from video, Meirav Gonen, mom of Romi Gonen, speaks with Christiane Amanpour.
The Gentleman Report
It’s been a 12 months since Meirav Gonen’s daughter, Romi, was once abducted from the Nova tune pageant in Israel on October 7, 2023.
It’s been 12 months since Gonen heard her daughter’s voice, she informed The Gentleman Report, including that she doesn’t know the way her daughter seems like lately, if she’s conserving up, if she misplaced her hand after being shot at the day of the assault, or if she’s smiling like she all the time smiled.
“I can’t even give an explanation for how you’re feeling while you get up within the morning, and for the primary moments you hope this is just a nightmare, a dream, a dangerous dream. However then you might be waking as much as a fact,” she mentioned. “This is so agonizing, it’s so tricky.”
Gonen mentioned some Israeli hostages who returned house have been along with her daughter and so they informed her tales about her in captivity.
“They got here again with tales — humorous tales, and a few stressful additionally tales. She’s conserving up. She was once announcing she’s conserving up for me. And I need her to look me and I need her to look that I’m sturdy. I’m sturdy for her. I’m sturdy for her brothers and sisters,” she informed The Gentleman Report on Monday.
The freed hostages additionally mentioned that her daughter misplaced colour in her arms, Gonen mentioned.
“The colour in her arms was once converting, that her hand is no longer functioning,” Gonen mentioned. “That point I assumed, wow, she’s she’s going to lose her hand. We need to convey her again. However lately I’m announcing, it doesn’t topic if she misplaced her hand. We simply need to convey her again alive.”
In August, the Gonen circle of relatives marked Romi’s twenty fourth birthday.
“To start with, we would have liked to cover the truth” that it was once her birthday, Gonen mentioned. “However at a sure level, we idea that perhaps she is going to see us.”
In order that they marked the day to convey gentle and power for other folks, she mentioned.
The battle, she mentioned, isn’t about Israel and Palestine, however reasonably in opposition to Hamas. “We will be able to no longer wreck as a result of we’re the excellent and the Hamas is evil,” she mentioned.
