She and the surviving kids — one other daughter, Agam, 17, and two sons, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9 — had 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 youngsters had been held collectively, handled “respectfully” and never bodily harmed. However she stated that over the course of varied strikes throughout their captivity, she had met different hostages who had been badly handled, together with two girls who stated they had been sexually abused.
Principally, they had been held in a room in an condo in Gaza, she stated, with the home windows closed apart from a little bit of recent air within the early mornings. However the closely armed captors additionally moved Ms. Goldstein-Almog and her kids to completely different flats, tunnels, a mosque, even a destroyed grocery store, she stated.
With the Israeli navy pounding Gaza, every switch was terrifying, and the boys holding them, she stated, didn’t all the time 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 she or he was pondering: That’s our air power up there.
“It was crazy,” she stated, “this absurdity.”
