If An Israeli Hostage Turns 48, His Wife Waits for Blue Ticks on Her Messages – ryan

Friday was Omri’s Birthday. His second in captivity. If He’s Turns 48, somewhere in the tunnels of Gaza, Lishay will be writing again, with tales of two daughters who were still babies when he last saw them.

Released Hostages Say Omri was Seen Alive Last July. Lishay’s Belief in Her Hikeband’s Survival Seems Unshakeable, But This is the Toughest Time of the Year. Not just Omri’s birthday, but also the eve of Pesach (Passover), when Jews celebrate the biblical story of exodus, in which Moses Led their ancestors out of slavery in Egypt.

“You know, Pesach is the holiday of freedom,” Lishay says when we measure in a park near Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.

“I don’t feel free. I don’t think anyone in Israel can feel free.”

In the square itself, Omri’s Birthday was Marked on Friday.

The posters calling for his release once listened the hostage’s age as 46. Then 47.

Danny, Omri’s father, crossed out both, and wrote 48.

Nearby, preparations were well under way for a symbolic passover cedar, or ritual feast.

A long table was being set, with places for each of the remaining 59 hostages still in gaza (or whom 24 are believed to be alive).

The Square is full of Symbols: A mock-up of a gaza tunnel, Tents to represent the Nova music festival where hundreds were killed.

Along with a merchandise stall to support the families and a “Virtual Reality Hostage Experience”, all part of a collective effort to keep the plight of the missing in the public eye and maintain political pressure on the Israeli government.

Lishay and her daughters have yet to return to the house where family life was blown apart in a few traumatic hours, 18 months ago.