Israeli parent worries his hostage daughter was molested

The father of an Israeli captive in Gaza is worried that his 18-year-old daughter may have been hurt by her captors.

Eli Albag told the media that he believed the people who were freed from being hostages with his daughter Liri knew something about what happened, but they didn’t tell him to protect his feelings.

He said the pain was making him feel really bad and he felt like he was barely alive. He could only keep going by taking medicine.

Israel says they cannot find over 130 people who were taken away during the attacks by Hamas on October 7th. Over 100 prisoners were set free when fighting stopped for six days in late November.

Some former captives say they were informed by other female captives that they were sexually attacked. Doctors told the Associated Press that 10 people who were let go were attacked or mistreated.

Mr Albag and three other family members of hostages have come to London to ask the UK Government to push Qatar to release the hostages. Qatar is involved in negotiations to release the hostages but also supports Hamas leaders.

They want the Gulf state to decide if it still wants to have Hamas there or if it wants to be part of Western culture.

Mr Albag says Liri is his youngest daughter. She is very happy, loves music, likes to dance, and has friends all over the world.

He says he’s tough, but he can’t sleep and has trouble talking because he’s worried about what might be happening to her.

“The family is falling apart. She has two sisters and a little brother. We haven’t been living together since October 7th,” he explains. In the morning, I am awake and alive. At night, I go to sleep and I am not awake or alive. Every This is what’s happened to us all the time, day and night.

He was told by the hostages that his daughter was alive and okay after 50 days of being held captive. They were living in a tunnel with no food, water, fresh air, or electricity. He says she couldn’t take a shower the whole time.

We hope she comes back to us in good shape.

“We are worried because some girls were attacked sexually by others and they have not been released. ”

Liri’s dad said there are young women between 18 and 30 who have not been let go.

He said the ex-hostages didn’t answer his tough questions about sexual abuse and looked away.

I know they don’t want to discuss this because they don’t want to upset us. But we get it. “We understand very well,” he says.

“It’s hard to say and hard to think, but I’m worried that they have done something bad to these girls. ” I don’t know what they are saying, and I don’t know what these animals are doing.

It’s been more than three months since the hostages were taken, and now there is another important problem.

Due to worries that some people may have been sexually assaulted, it might be too late to end any pregnancies that they don’t want.

Mr Albag is scared and knows that time is running out to fix the problem.

On Monday, later in the day, four Israelis went to a meeting hosted by Conservative Friends of Israel. Eli Albag gave UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a dog tag that said “Bring them home”.

Another one of the four, Liran Berman, whose brothers Gali and Ziv are still being kept against their will, explained what they wanted to say to the people from Qatar.

He said Qatar is very important. “They are welcoming the leaders of Hamas and also spending money on Western culture, purchasing football teams and properties in London, Europe, and the US. ”

“They have to pick a team. ” If they want to join Western culture, that’s fine, but they can’t let Hamas leaders stay there.

A Qatari leader said sorry to the families of the hostages. They are still talking to everyone involved and trying hard to bring the hostages back home and stop the war.

“Qatar has been trying very hard to free the hostages and stop more violence since the crisis started,” the official said.

“This involves using its way of talking with Hamas, which was set up over ten years ago with the help of the United States. ”

“Right now, 109 people who were held captive in Gaza have been set free because of these actions. Also, last week, Qatar helped make a deal to bring medicine to the hostages and send help to the people living in Gaza. “