She and the surviving youngsters — one other daughter, Agam, 17, and two sons, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9 — had been launched in late November as a part of the change of prisoners between Israel and Hamas that has since ceased.
In an interview this week, she shared particulars about her ordeal.
She mentioned she and the kids had been held collectively, handled “respectfully” and never bodily harmed. However she mentioned that over the course of assorted strikes throughout their captivity, she had met different hostages who had been badly handled, together with two ladies who mentioned they had been sexually abused.
Principally, they had been held in a room in an house in Gaza, she mentioned, with the home windows closed apart from a little bit of recent air within the early mornings. However the closely armed captors additionally moved Ms. Goldstein-Almog and her youngsters to completely different flats, tunnels, a mosque, even a destroyed grocery store, she mentioned.
With the Israeli navy pounding Gaza, every switch was terrifying, and the boys holding them, she mentioned, didn’t at all times appear to know what to do.
Describing one transfer, she mentioned: “It was the nighttime. All the pieces was darkish. They began deliberating amongst themselves. I may see the helplessness on their faces.”
“Once we had been out into the road, in whole darkness, there was a shot above us,” she continued. “We had been pressed towards the wall, and I may see a laser pointer, as if we had been being focused from above.”
And she or he was pondering: That’s our air power up there.
“It was loopy,” she mentioned, “this absurdity.”
