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Ada Sagi: I don't believe in peace now, Hamas hostage survivor, 75, tells BBC
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2eem7e7v30o
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An Israeli peace activist who was seized from her home on 7 October and held hostage for 53 days in Gaza has told the BBC how her ordeal destroyed her belief that peace is possible between Palestinians and Israelis.In her first UK interview since being freed in November, Ada Sagi, 75, also told Emma Barnett on Radio 4’s Today programme how she was held in an apartment by paid guards, that Hamas kept her in a hospital before her release - and that she now believes the world hates Jews.
“Ms Sagi lived for decades in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border, trying to help reconciliation efforts by teaching Israelis Arabic to speak to their neighbours.In the autumn of 2023, she was planning to come to London to visit her son Noam and celebrate her birthday.But all that changed when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza, Ms Sagi among them.Ada, who turned 75 while held hostage by those she describes as “Hamas terrorists”, was finally freed 53 days later.
It has taken six months for the life-long peace activist to be ready to talk to the British media about her experience and her views of those who took her freedom, her home and her belief in peace.She is aware of the 116 hostages still left behind, 41 of whom Israel says are presumed dead, and is urging the Israeli government to agree a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas.
“Israel have to do the deal… bring back home all these hostages who is alive and also dead,” she says.Ms Sagi describes how when she was first taken into Gaza, she and some other hostages were hidden in a family home with children, but the following day taken to an apartment in the southern city of Khan Younis because it was “dangerous”.The apartment owner, Ms Sagi said, told them his wife and children had been sent to stay with his in-laws.
And if you have work not with Hamas, it’s no more than 20 shekels for a day,” she said.Ms Sagi was among 105 hostages released in November in return for a week-long ceasefire and some 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
“It’s made me feel good that I can help other people,” she said.She is also keen to continue talking about her ordeal, despite the strong emotions it brings up.
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