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Ilana Gritsevski She feels like she’s drowning and her body shakes when asked how Hamas kidnapped her and how she survived her captivity in the Gaza tunnels, but despite everything, she wants to tell it because “The world forgets that there are 101 kidnapped people that every second that passes they could die.”

Gritsevski, 30, and her boyfriend Matan Zangauker, who are Mexican, Israeli and Israeli, were kidnapped October 7, 2023 during a bloody Hamas attack. as a result of which more than 1,200 people died and 250 were taken hostage.

After 55 days of captivity, Ilana was released along with other kidnapped people thanks to a truce reached by Israel and Hamas a year ago, but Her boyfriend and many acquaintances and friends from the kibbutz where she lived are still in prison. and in which one in four residents was killed or kidnapped.

“I’m here to raise my voice for my boyfriend, my friends and so that everyone knows what happened to those of us who were kidnapped And everyone remembers that innocent civilians are still in the hands of the terrorist group,” he explained to the agency. EFE during her visit to Madrid, where she is this Sunday to take part in tomorrow’s ceremony for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

“My people want the end of the war in exchange for the return of the hostages”

“I wouldn’t wish what I went through and what the kidnapped people are going through,” he says. The whole world “You must raise your voice against terrorist groups.”

Ilana sends her message for everyone to hear: “civilians and politicians, because they are all people” and everyone should know that the kidnapped people are suffering.

“My people want this war to end completely.” in exchange for the return of all 101 abducted people to us.” sentence, before clarifying that he didn’t want to talk about politics.

Her boyfriend and his friends are still kidnapped

She says she doesn’t have enough information to know who he is. responsibility for the failure to reach an agreement on the release of those still abducted, But she claims she never imagined the nightmare of her boyfriend and his friends being kidnapped would last so long.

Since that black October 7th there has not been a day of peace for her, not even a day of her release, because when she was told that Ilana was going to leave She already knew that her boyfriend was in the same tunnels as her, although he was never allowed to see it.

“I didn’t want to leave without seeing my boyfriend. I knew that if I left, my body would leave, but my soul would remain there with him and my friends,” he recalls.

But the terrorists freed her because “no matter what you say, you are a puppet for them, “They do whatever they want to you.”

The story of his abduction and captivity is shocking. Despite the fact that the story of this breaks her from the inside, it I can tell you some things and convey the fear and humiliation suffered.

She says she was paralyzed by fear when terrorists entered her home and They pulled her by the hair to the motorcycle on which she was taken to Gaza “like a trophy.”

The kidnapping was so brutal that it reached its final destination – the Gaza tunnels. with a broken hip and jaw, burned on her legs and deaf in one ear. He still walks with a limp and knows he will never regain mobility in his hip.

In the first days, she was taken from house to house, beaten, tortured and groped. The whole time she was kidnapped, she lived in fear, because this is a common thing for At midnight someone will be taken away to be tortured and interrogated.

For 55 eternal days, she was afraid that any word or gesture would provoke another beating or rape, and when she was finally transferred to the tunnels, the fear increased. darkness, humidity, dirt and the danger of dying buried.

During these two months he lost 12 kilograms.She fainted daily from weakness and never received medical attention, so she knows how her boyfriend and the rest of the kidnapped people must be feeling a year later, and insists that “every second that passes, they could die.”

(Rosa Diaz/EFE)