The digged and pale face, the skeletal body almost dragged by his jailers on the stage of yet another horror show in Gaza. A body enclosed in a brown suit with its printed name, such as that of a prisoner who has endured the weight of a captivity lasting 491 days in the hands of Hamas. But Eli Sharabi He still did not know that he would be a day of joy broken by the news, whispered by his mother and sister, that his wife and two daughters were crossed without mercilessly by the terrorists at the Kibbutz of Bèeri that cursed 7 October.
Just a few days ago, while the announcement of the names of the hostages that Hamas would have freed on the fifth day of exchange of prisoners, his brother Sharon Sharabi had still described the story of Eli as “the most cruel and insane of 7 October” was still That day the militiamen first took away another brother of Eli, Yossi Sharabi, 53 years old, dragged on a pick-up together with Ofir Engel18 year old resident of Jerusalem who was visiting the family for that weekend, and a neighbor, the 16 -year -old Amit Shani: the two boys were released on November 29, 2023 as part of the first agreement of the fire, Yossi instead died during The imprisonment in Gaza.
After Yossi’s house, Hamas broke into Eli’s, screaming in Arabic and laughing, according to text messages exchanged among other family members and Eli, his wife Lianne and their daughters, Noiya, 16 years old and Yahel, 13 years. The terrorists first killed their dog. Then they locked the family in the security room and set fire to the house. Initially all four had been given to be dispersed by the Israeli authorities. Only a week after the bodies of Lianne, Noiya and Yahel were identified, while Eli was declared hostage to Gaza.
From that moment, the struggle of his family and friends to bring him home has never stopped, although there has been no sign of Eli on social media or in photos and videos published by Hamas. Finally, today it has reappeared on screens around the world, with The face dug by a tragedy that has wiped out his family forever, Of which he still did not know the tragic fate: according to what reported by Channel 12, Eli knew of the death in captivity of his brother Yossi, but not that his wife and two daughters had been murdered. The first question – says the Israeli channel – was precisely on his family: after having tightened him in a big hug, it was his mother and sister who tells him the unspeakable.
Upon his arrival at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, wrapped in an Israeli flag, Eli was accepted by a crowd of supporters and friends, to whom he dressed a greeting. “His eyes seemed sad, but there was also a little happiness”told a friend to Channel 12, as if to summarize the double face of a day of relief and pain. The struggle of the Sharabi family, however, continues, to bring home Yossi’s body still in the hands of the terrorists in Gaza.