Meirav Gonen listened in real-time terror as her daughter, bleeding in the back seat of a car and fearing death, described by phone the surprise attack by Hamas on a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
A mother has told how she listened in horror as her daughter lay bleeding in the back seat of a car during Hamas' October 7 attack on an Israeli music festival.
"We demand the safe return of all citizens who have been taken hostage by the terrorist group Hamas," the group says on its website, story.bringthemhomenow.net.The Gonen family, far away in their northern Israel hometown of Kfar Vradim, desperately tried to contact authorities for help as daughter Romi described the terror of October 7.
Bring Them Home Now sprang up in the immediate hours after the attack that shocked and frightened but unified what had been a nation torn apart by bitter domestic political turmoil. Malki Shem-Tov tracked his son via cell phone, wondering why he appeared to be fleeing the festival by car toward Gaza. The family later realized he wasn't driving toward Gaza voluntarily.Bring Them Home Now has, in the three weeks since the terror attack, taken over seven floors of an eight-story modern office building in Tel Aviv.
Ten of the suspected hostages are five years old or younger, according to the Bring Them Home Now website. The youngest is just nineDonations, the group says in a statement,"are directed toward advancing all necessary efforts to raise awareness, create campaigns in Israel and abroad, and end the hostage situation in a speedy manner."
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