An aunt of Avigail Idan, the woman who was taken hostage by Hamas after she noticed her mother and father brutally killed and who turned 4 a number of days earlier than being launched, says that her niece shared one piece of pita bread per day with 4 others, and didn’t have a bathe or tub throughout her 50 days in captivity.
Avigail, who’s a twin citizen of Israel and the USA, was stored with the 4 members of the Brodutch household with whom she was kidnapped on Oct. 7. The Brodutches have been the Idan household’s neighbors on the Kfar Aza kibbutz, and Avigail had hidden with the household after her parents were shot.
Based on the aunt, Tal Idan, the 5 hostages have been stored in aboveground residences, altering areas at the least as soon as. They got a bit of pita with za’atar, a Center Japanese spice combination, every day to share.
Whereas in captivity, Avigail’s hair was minimize as a result of she had developed a major case of lice, Ms. Idan mentioned in an interview this week. “She was covered in it. It took quite an effort to help her get rid of some of it the first night,” she mentioned.
“It was lovely curly hair. And now it’s all gone. But it will grow again.”
When Avigail was launched on Sunday, she was met on the border in Israel by her grandmother and an aunt. A army helicopter took them to a pediatric hospital close to Tel Aviv. The army gave her a set of small, pink noise-canceling headphones to place over her ears.
Avigail’s household was relieved to study that she was not alone throughout her captivity, and was taken care of by Hagar Brodutch as she additionally cared for her personal three kids. “We are so grateful for Hagar,,” Ms. Idan mentioned, calling the 40-year-old “our guardian angel.”
Because the Oct. 7 assaults, Ms. Idan and her husband have helped take care of Avigail’s siblings, Michael, 9, and Amelia, 6, who weren’t kidnapped. Now, she mentioned, the youngsters should alter to a life with out their mother and father.
“For all three of them, the focus is helping them get a new life — being able to feel safe again and being able to sleep for the entire night and not having nightmares,” she mentioned.
