Israeli hostage returned to family “is the same but not the same,” her niece says

The niece of Margalit Moses, one of the prisoners delivered by Hamas on Friday, says that her auntie’s homecoming has been happy and miserable simultaneously.

“You need to bounce high to the sky, yet something leaves you on the ground since you realize you’re living in an extremely, convoluted circumstance,” Efrat Machikawa told CBS News.

On Oct. 7, Moses was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, a local area close to the line with Gaza where one out of each and every four individuals was either killed or kidnapped, as per local area pioneers. In her 70s and with serious medical problems, she was among those delivered in the principal detainee trade with Hamas.

Margalit Moses, a released Israeli hostage, walks with an Israeli soldier shortly after her arrival in Israel on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023.

“She is the equivalent yet not the equivalent, since nothing will return to what life was previously,” Machikawa said.
Machikawa said Moses was let out of the medical clinic early Monday and is presently at home with her loved ones. She has asked not to be quickly educated everything regarding what had occurred on and since Oct. 7, since it is a lot for her.

“You were snatched fiercely. You were removed. You realize you are by the hands of an immense foe who is so perilous. How would you act? How would you get up in the first part of the day, and what do you do? It’s moment by minute. It’s step by step. Furthermore, it’s for a considerable length of time,” Machikawa said of her auntie’s trial.

She said Moses, who was displayed in a Hamas video on Oct. 7 being removed by assailants in a golf truck, had been marched through the roads of Gaza prior to being brought down into the passages, where she stayed for her whole imprisonment.

“She is constantly sick, she’s actual sick, and I think she is viewed as a clinical wonder in light of the fact that actually her soul took here and she oversaw in some way,” Machikawa said. “I believe that she was quite possibly of the most fortunate. The majority of them were not treated as we would naturally suspect they ought to have been, and she was somewhat alright, and individuals with her.”

She said her auntie likewise figured out how to help individuals she was being held with.

Chanan Cohen shows a picture of his sister Margalit Berta Moses and her ex-husband Gad Moshe Moses during a press conference with family members of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attack, at the Israeli Consulate in Munich, Germany, on Nov. 13, 2023.

“It’s difficult to accept in light of the fact that we generally accompanied and helped her, yet she viewed the strength as the one aiding, which is amazing, I think. Her DNA is courageous woman DNA,” Machikawa said.
Machikawa said the need of the Israeli government and the world ought to be to help the leftover prisoners, large numbers of whom she said are old and have persistent sicknesses like hypertension and diabetes.

“I figure the public authority and the world ought to do anything they can, anything it takes, to bring them back home alive. This ought to be the top, top, first concern of the world’s advantage and our administration’s advantage. Whatever (else) is significant ought to come three stages behind.”

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