Hostage Survivor Recounts Protecting Young Daughters in Gaza Captivity
Translated & summarized from Israel Hayom by baba
Four Israeli hostage survivors, including Doron Katz-Asher, shared their experiences in Gaza captivity in a special television episode. Katz-Asher described protecting her two young daughters, aged 2.5 and 4.5, by shielding them from the harsh realities and telling them they were in a safe place. She recounted rationing food and the emotional toll, admitting her greatest fear was her daughters dying in captivity, not her own fate.
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- Doron Katz-Asher, a hostage survivor, described protecting her young daughters during captivity in Gaza.
- Katz-Asher told her daughters they were in a safe place with good people watching over them.
- She rationed food, telling her children she often had nothing to give them.
- Katz-Asher stated that Hamas militants showed no particular compassion towards the children.
- Her greatest fear was that her daughters might die in Gaza, not her own fate.
A special episode of the Israeli television program "Taboo," hosted by Hanoch Daum, will air Tuesday evening, featuring an intimate conversation with four survivors of the October 7th Hamas attack and subsequent captivity in Gaza. Among them are Doron Katz-Asher and fellow survivors Aviva Siegel, Eitan Mor, and Guy Gilboa-Dalal. The participants gathered at a shared vacation spot to openly discuss their experiences in captivity and their lives afterward.
Katz-Asher, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz with her daughters Raz, aged 4.5, and Aviv, aged 2.5, shared the daily struggle to maintain her children's well-being and sanity. When asked by Daum how she dealt with their hunger, Katz-Asher responded that she often had to tell them she had nothing to give, resorting to saving food from the previous day to provide them with something in the morning. She emphatically stated that the Hamas militants showed no particular compassion towards the children.
To shield her daughters from the brutal reality of their abduction, during which they witnessed the murder of their grandmother, Katz-Asher created a protective narrative. She told them they were in a safe place with good people watching over them until they could return home, explaining that the "bad guys" were only present on October 7th.
In a personal moment with Daum, Katz-Asher recalled breaking down in the early days of captivity. She would cry in the bathroom so her daughters wouldn't see, later telling them she was crying because she missed home. Her deepest fear, she confessed, was the possibility that her young daughters might die in Gaza. She stated that she did not think about herself and did not care about her own fate.
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