No idea what to expect

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Ashley Waxman Bakshi, the relative of an Israeli hostage, says that she and her family have no idea how her cousin will cope with life if she returns home.   #Gaza #Israel

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00:00Let's go back to talking about your cousin. She's been in captivity now for

00:0315 months and I'm just wondering, have you spoken to people about what it's

00:09going to be like for her reintegrating her into a more normal daily routine?

00:15It's going to be really difficult isn't it for her?

00:18Absolutely, I mean we've never been in this position before. When I say we, I mean as a

00:24country of receiving hostages that have been away for so long. We saw these

00:28psychological and physical trauma of the hostages that came back after 50

00:33days and so we have no idea what to expect. We do know, if you remember the

00:38six hostages that were executed in the tunnels, I think it was about two months

00:43ago at this point, so one of them, her name Ede Niaushalmi, she was weighing

00:48only 53 pounds. That was what her body had weighed. She had lost like 40% of her

00:54body weight or something like that and so we have no idea what kind of physical

00:58state they're going to be in. God forbid, you know, if there was any sexual assault

01:04what the results of that, you know, might have been. I don't want to, you know, go

01:08into detail. I think everybody can understand what I mean when I say that.

01:11The psychological trauma.

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