October 7 hasn't ended. One year later, 101 hostages are still being held in Gaza

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While visiting her boyfriend’s household for the spiritual vacation of Simchat Torah, a young Israeli woman, Sapir Cohen, was taken hostage connected October 7, 2023. She spent 55 days successful captivity successful Gaza earlier she was released successful a woody with the Hamas terrorists who took her and hundreds of different Israelis captive. Cohen’s boyfriend, Sasha Troufanov, has been held captive with 1 100 others for precisely 1 year, today. 

Cohen visited my children’s overnight sleepaway programme this summer, telling campers astir the plight of those inactive near down successful Gaza portion sharing her ain experience. 

She shared, "Down determination [in the tunnels] determination is nary light. Sometimes a violent would usage a flashlight, but adjacent then, I couldn’t spot anything. There is besides nary air." She went connected to explicate the deficiency of oxygen, the prevalence of humidity and mold, and the deficiency of food. She experienced this for little than 2 months; Sasha and 100 others person for 12 months. 

She goes anyplace she tin to stock her communicative successful bid to rise consciousness astir the hostages who person spent a twelvemonth of their lives wasting distant successful the tunnels of Gaza, due to the fact that she knows the satellite has mislaid interest. There are nary yellowish ribbons lining the trees of America’s tiny towns successful grant of the 4 Americans inactive being held hostage; nor were determination ample memorials for Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a young American lad who was taken hostage and executed successful the tunnels successful Gaza 1 period ago.

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Even Troufanov’s ain leader has forsaken him. Despite moving arsenic an technologist connected a pivotal task for Amazon, the Seattle-based institution has been soundless astir his plight. 

Amazon isn’t unsocial successful their disinterest successful their imprisoned Jewish employees. One twelvemonth ago, PepsiCo’s subsidiary, SodaStream, had 1 of its employees, Guy Gilboa-Dalal taken captive arsenic well, and Pepsi person maintained their silence. Pepsi has had nary issues speaking up and ponying up connected different societal issues, yet, erstwhile it comes to their ain staffer kidnapped from a euphony festival, they can’t beryllium bothered to advocator for his contiguous and unconditional release. 

On the day of October 7th, hostage Emily Damari’s parent Mandy spoke retired astir her daughter, violently taken from a Kibbutz on the Gaza border, Kfar Aza. 

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In her British accent, Mandy pleaded, "I would similar to consciousness that the British nationalist were down her, and the British authorities were down her, and they were saying determination is simply a British hostage held captive successful the panic tunnels by Hamas successful Gaza. I privation them to cognize she’s there, and to advocator for her release, unconditionally and immediately. She’s a young woman, and who knows what’s happening to her. If there’s a mode to enactment her connected societal media, and spot her retired there. Remind radical that she’s there, [and] marque definite she’s not forgotten." 

The worst fears of their families and loved ones person been realized; Sasha, Guy and Emily person been forgotten. Put simply and bluntly: Hostages and their families consciousness unsocial and forsaken due to the fact that they person been. Their employers person abandoned them, and their governments have, too. The satellite assemblage and organizations, tasked with advocating for the astir susceptible among us, person intelligibly indicated that Jews don’t number successful their hierarchy of victims. 

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Not lone are the victims of October 7th forgotten, they person been transformed into oppressors by evil individuals and organizations who person decided that Jewish lives simply bash not matter. 

Amnesty International UK, successful the days starring up to the anniversary, justified the massacre and reminded their followers "Don’t fto anyone archer you that this each started connected the 7th of October 2023." 

In effect to Amnesty, pro-Israel influencer Hen Mazzig asked, "So erstwhile did it start? In 2002, during the Second Intifada, erstwhile I was astir killed successful a panic attack? Or successful 1951, erstwhile my household was expelled from Tunisia for being Jewish? Or successful 1941, during the Farhud, erstwhile my household members were killed and expelled from Iraq? Or the Hebron massacre successful 1929? When did it start? When did the satellite go truthful apathetic arsenic to contradict Jews the close to mourn our dormant and station videos similar this connected the time we commemorate the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? And October 7th hasn’t ended for us, due to the fact that 101 hostages are inactive being held successful Gaza for 365 days." 

A twelvemonth on, millions of Jews, some American and Israelis alike, are each inactive trapped successful October 7th, but the twelvemonth is inactive 2023, not 2024. Life has moved connected arsenic we person scrambled to effort to beg for sympathy, relevancy and attraction portion the satellite marks holidays similar Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Passover, each the portion we conflict to punctual the satellite that we are inactive trapped successful October. And present we are, backmost successful October. 

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In her celebrated book, "Anne of Green Gables," L. M. Montgomery wrote, "I'm truthful gladsome I unrecorded successful a satellite wherever determination are Octobers." 

For Jews, our satellite has been thing but Octobers for the past 12 months. Finding ourselves backmost successful October is simply a achy reminder that our hearts, each 101 of them, inactive laic captive successful Gaza. It won’t halt being October 7th until they’re each home. 

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