YARDEN GONEN: Thanks, President Trump, for rescuing my sister from Hamas

President Trump, due to you, I can hug my sister once more. After 471 agonizing days, Romi is lastly residence, and I owe you my deepest gratitude for making this potential. Your unwavering dedication and decisive motion helped safe this deal, giving me what I had dreamed of for 15 months – seeing my sister smile once more.

Romi is the sunshine of our household. She places her household first and there’s nothing she received’t do for those she loves. That is who she was earlier than October seventh, and that is who she remained even via the darkest moments of captivity.

I’ll by no means have the ability to overlook the horrors of that day. Romi was simply 23 when Hamas terrorists kidnapped her from the NOVA pageant. In her terrifying closing moments of freedom, she was on the telephone with our mom as she tried to flee the positioning in a car along with her pals. Her final phrases nonetheless hang-out us – she stated the motive force was useless, and that her finest pal Gaya had been shot and wasn’t responding. She advised us she was shot in her hand and would bleed to dying if assist did not arrive shortly. 

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For 471 days, we lived in agony, not figuring out what she was experiencing or what was taking place to her there. For these 471 days, I lived in a nightmare that no sister ought to endure. Each passing hour was full of ideas of Romi in captivity, questioning if she was chilly, hungry, or afraid. We did not know the extent of her accidents or if she had acquired any medical care. 

President Trump, we’re a household of religion – all through this horrific ordeal, we knew she would return to us alive, and also you made that occur. Your robust and decisive statements gave us hope once we wanted it most. When others might need given up, you did not. When the negotiations appeared unimaginable, you pushed more durable. Your unwavering demand that each one hostages should return residence proved essential in securing the deal that introduced my Romi and others again to their households.

Romi Gonen (left) along with her sister Yarden (proper) earlier than the October 7 bloodbath and mass kidnappings by Hamas terrorists. Romi was lately freed after spending 471 days in captivity. (The Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board)

Thanks, President Trump, for being the catalyst that turned our hopes into actuality. Your management confirmed that even essentially the most tough diplomatic challenges will be overcome with sufficient willpower.

Watching you convey the households of hostages to the stage throughout your presidential parade demonstrated your real concern and made us really feel, 15 months after October 7, that we aren’t forgotten. Watching the launch of 4 extra feminine hostages – Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, and Liri Albag – crammed my coronary heart with a lot hope and love. 4 extra households have been reunited. I do know precisely how they really feel, how a lot their households fought for this valuable second, and now 90 extra households await their very own reunion.

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Yarden (left) embraces Romi upon her launch from Gaza. Romi was stored hostage by Hamas terrorists for 471 days. (Authorities Press Workplace)

The second I first hugged Romi after her launch, I felt a pleasure I may barely put into phrases. That embrace wouldn’t have been potential with out your intervention. Your skill to leverage diplomatic channels and your dedication to bringing all of the hostages residence, even earlier than your inauguration, made the distinction between continued captivity and freedom for my sister.

However my household’s work is not completed. There are nonetheless 90 hostages in Gaza – little children, fathers and moms, grandparents and younger youngsters. Every one in all them is somebody’s Romi. Every one in all them has a household ready, hoping, praying simply as we did. None of us who’ve been reunited with our family members can really heal whereas others stay in captivity. We want your continued help and affect to convey them residence too. 

President Trump, the deal you helped safe did not simply convey my sister residence – it gave us all hope that with robust management and willpower, we will convey everybody again. Please assist us full what you’ve got began and produce each final hostage residence, as you so powerfully declared. We’re relying on you to make sure all phases of the deal are fulfilled. Dozens of households deserve what you’ve got given mine – that valuable second of holding their family members once more. 

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Romi Gonen and her mom Meirav Leshem Gonen reunited after Romi’s launch from Gaza. (Authorities Press Workplace)

Each time I take a look at Romi now, at her energy and her coronary heart that remained unbroken even via this ordeal, I am reminded of what your intervention made potential. Along with your assist, we will flip extra households’ prayers into reunions. Solely when all 90 hostages are residence can we really start to heal.

Thanks, President Trump, for bringing my sister again to me. Please assist us convey everybody else residence too. Our hope rests with you.