The wife of an Israeli hostage wrote a heartbreaking open letter to her kidnapped husband, noting how he misses their baby growing up and saying, “I wonder, will you be free to see her walk for the first time?”
Lishay Lavi, a 38-year-old mother of two, says she has been living a nightmare since her husband, Omri Miran, 46, was kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
Now, 108 days into the war between Israel and Hamas, Lavi wrote about how she and her two daughters, Roni, 2, and Alma, 5 months, are coping without him.
“Alma started crawling shortly after she was taken from us,” Lavi said. “Now she also sits down and she stands up and tries to eat alone.
“She smiles and reaches into the space you once occupied as if trying to capture a memory slipping through her tiny fingers.
“I wonder, will you be able to see her walk for the first time?”
Mori Miran, 46, was separated from his wife and daughters when Hamas kidnapped him on October 7. Courtesy of Lishay Lavi Roni, 2, hugs a poster of her father as her heartbroken mother Lishay Lavi looks on with her little girl, Alma de ella. Courtesy of Lishay Lavi
Lavi added that Roni has also started speaking more clearly, including asking about her father every night.
“Talk about the bad people who took you before our eyes. “She draws you every day,” Lavi said. “And her smile reminds me of you.
“His eyes search mine for peace of mind and I try to give him the certainty he longs for. But true comfort will only come when it is returned to us,” she noted.
Lavi says he continues to write letters every day waiting for Miran’s safe return. Courtesy of Lishay Lavi
Lavi also tells Miran that he has been writing other letters to her every day, highlighting “our pain, our agony, our despair”, comparing himself to Penelope, Odysseus’s wife who waited for him to return home in the Greek epic, “The odyssey.”
The heartbroken wife revealed to her husband that the family is now living in a shelter, as their neighborhood in Nir Oz had been completely destroyed by Hamas.
The letter concludes with Lavi criticizing the international community for not doing everything possible to free the estimated 132 hostages still held in Gaza.
Miran was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz when her daughter Alma was only 2 years old. Courtesy of Lishay Lavi
“How do we get to a place where families’ humanitarian pleas are met with indifference and ridicule, where the principles that should guide us are overshadowed by political posturing?” he asked.
“There are times when we feel that our government has also abandoned us. Although I really believe that he is committed to achieving his release and that of all the hostages,” he assured Miran.
The letter was published hours before it was revealed that Israel had sent a new proposal to Hamas seeking to exchange all hostages for a truce that would halt fighting in Gaza for up to two months.
Dani Miran cries on January 11 when she asked for her son’s release from Gaza. AP
The proposed hostage deal would first allow the release of all captive women and men who are over 60 years old and who are in critical condition or have serious health problems.
The next phases would release hostages not affiliated with the Israel Defense Forces, and then Hamas would release Israeli soldiers as well as the bodies of hostages who died in captivity, the officials said.
Israel estimates that around 132 hostages remain in Gaza, of whom 27 are believed dead.
It is unclear whether Hamas will accept the deal, as it has openly rejected two key points that the terrorists sought: the Jewish state refuses to release all its Palestinian prisoners and completely ends its operations in Gaza in exchange for the hostages.
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