Aviva Siegel has come to embody the disaster that befell Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 51 days after she was kidnapped with her husband on Oct. 7, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Keith Siegel is still in captivity. , Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water. Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his own ongoing captivity..
In its attack, Hamas kidnapped roughly 250 people, including women, children and older people. It killed some 1,200 people — most of them civilians — according to Israeli authorities. The war the attack sparked has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, over half of them women and children, On the first day, they were joined by other hostages and they were brought pita and cheese, which hardly anyone ate because they were all in shock. But throughout her captivity, food was scarce and Siegel said there were entire days when she wasn’t brought anything to eat.
But worse was the treatment from the guards. Siegel, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, said she was pushed and yanked by the hair and shoved into cars.
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