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‘Don’t let any of them get left behind’

Hostage families urge the diaspora community to keep applying pressure on world leaders

January 17, 2025 13:27
Kfir BIbas second birthday Save the Children
Members of the Jewish community and its allies held a rally on Thursday evening outside Save the Children in London to mark the second birthday of Kfir Bibas (Photo: Gaby Wine)
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The families of hostages who are not on the list of those due to be released this weekend have spoken of their anguish over fears that their relatives will get left behind in Gaza.

Speaking outside the Save the Children headquarters in London on Thursday night, at a rally to mark hostage Kfir Bibas’ second birthday, Yotam Cohen, the brother of hostage Nimrod Cohen, said: “My brother’s fate is yet to be unsealed, and to tell you the truth, I’m afraid. For the past 15 months, we’ve been fighting and struggling to get a glimmer of hope, and now we have a glimmer of hope, but we are afraid that this will fade away.

“Even now as we speak, there are some that are trying to sabotage and halt the deal. We must not allow them to succeed… I’m afraid to receive the news that negotiations have collapsed and we’re going to wait another year to get the other hostages back.”

Nimrod Cohen was abducted on October 7 by Hamas terrorists when he was 19 (Photo: X)[Missing Credit]

He urged supporters to keep on campaigning for the release of his brother and the other 65 who aren’t expected to be released in the first phase, adding: “It’s easy to allow ourselves to relax and sit and tell ourselves that this is over, the hostage deal was signed, but it’s not over. It will never be over until [all the] hostages are back home.”