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I was posted just a few days ago on Saturday, After 498 days in captivity. While my body lies at the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, my heart and soul remain trapped in Gaza. As long as my brother Eitan and other hostages hold the trapped there, and I remain a hostage. The little strength that has left me, I devote myself completely to the fighting for their return before it is too late.
As I write these words, four other hostages from my own kibbut return to Israel – in coffins. Odeed Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two valuable children, Ariel and Baby Kfirwho was not even a year old when he abducted. They lived on October 7, 2023, and now their families must be buried. What kind of world do we live in what terrorists kill an innocent baby, his young brother, their mother and an elderly man? While these families set their loved ones, I am bothered by one thought: will my brother Eitan be next? Will more families receive their loved ones in coffins? We can’t let that happen. No hostage should come back this way.
Israeli hostage IAIR HORN, 46, left, Sagui Dekel Chen, 36, Center left, and Alexander Troofanov, 29, right, accompanied by Hamas and Islamic jihad fighters while handing over them to the Red Cross in Khan Strip on Saturday, February 15 . (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
7. October 2023He began as any other peaceful Shabbut in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Like many other Argentine immigrants who have found a new life in Israel, I built my world in this small, narrow community. My younger brother Eitan came to spend the weekend with me in Kibutz. None of us could imagine the horror that would go – the day our small community was devastated, with a quarter of our people or killed or abducted by the Hamas terrorists.
They took me to a motorcycle, undergoing me with such severe physical violence that I remained bleeding and wounded. For a month now, I didn’t know if Eitan was alive or dead. When they finally gathered us, we stayed side by side until the day of my release – a moment that tears my heart every second of each day.
The conditions of our captivity were beyond everything that people should endure. Physical torture was unbearable, especially in those first months. But it was a psychological torture that almost broke us – a constant fear that every breath could be our last, that any word or movement could trigger the violence of our abductors. We were starving, questioning, abusing. I survived, focusing on just making it through another day and then others.
Iair Horn was released from his prisoner as hostage of Hamas in Gaza, but his brother Eitan Horn remains a prisoner. (GPO/Polovation via Reuters; Reuters/Janis Laiziz)
I know with certainty that those who are still sticking to captivity do not have much time. I have seen with my own eyes how sick some of them are – they will not survive for many days without medical care. My brother Eitan is seriously ill with a condition that requires no medication that he does not receive. It has severe infections and dangerous fever. Every hour that passes brings their life at greater risk. It is tragic that Eitan and dozens of others are not involved in the current phase of the edition that brought me home.
President Trump, who secured my freedom: even though we never met, I will forever owe my life to you. History will remember you as a leader who has taken decisive actions when it was most important, who supported the holy value of human life.
President Trump, who secured my freedom: even though we never met, I will forever owe my life to you. History will remember you as a leader who has taken decisive actions when it was most important, who supported the holy value of human life. Everything I do from this point forward will be thanks to your efforts. But there is still an emergency job. Please use your influence once again to bring back home. We need your help now more than ever.
I promised those I left to do everything in my power to secure their edition.
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The world has to understand – people are currently dying in these tunnels. My brother is currently dying in those tunnels. We need action today, not tomorrow. Return those who are still alive before it is too late. Return those who died so that their families can close and mourn properly.
My brother Eitan: Keep. Just as you gave me strength during our darkest days together, I will not rest until you and every other hostage return home.
As long as the hostages stay in Gaza, none of us truly free.
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