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Cousin of Israeli hostage Carmel Gat killed by Hamas says her death is ‘tragic nightmare’
The Independent
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9/2/2024
The cousin of an Israeli hostage killed by Hamas said her death was a ‘tragic nightmare’.Source: Bel Trew / The Independent
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For us, this is the most tragic nightmare that we could have dreamed of.
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We had information that Carmel is alive and we even had signs of life from just
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a few weeks before she was murdered.
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We knew that she was alive and we were trying everything, really everything,
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to tell our government and to tell the government of the world that
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a ceasefire is the most urgent thing. That's what I was doing and Carmel's brother Alon was doing
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in Congress just in July, a month before Carmel was murdered.
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We were trying to urge the sides to seal the deal and unfortunately we now know,
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it has become public, that Carmel was a part of the deal that was actually authorized by Hamas.
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After a long time of negotiations, her name was there, the name of Hersh Goldberg Poland was there,
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the name of Adeni Rushalmi was also there and the Israeli government's decision
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to delay, to put more terms, to stick to the Philadelphia line between Gaza and Egypt,
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the decision that was made just a week ago,
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that made sure that the hostages stayed in captivity and unfortunately that was the end for Carmel,
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for Hersh, for Aden, for Al-Mogh, for Alex and for Ori. All six of them were alive,
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all six of them were held together and all six of them were killed in captivity
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and we could have saved all of them and for us as the family of Carmel and as a part of the
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hostage families forum, the most important thing now, the focus that we're trying to put now
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is on the hostages that are still in captivity, there are still 101 hostages, most of them are alive,
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just like Carmel was alive, just like Hersh was alive, we know that they're alive,
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it's not important how we know but we do, we know and we want the Israeli government,
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all governments of the world and of course Hamas, who's to blame for the fact that they're there,
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to know that the most important thing for us as Israelis is to get the hostages home.
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