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Mother of Israeli hostage begs Trump, Netanyahu to bring son home before ceasefire collapses: ‘No more time’

by February 12, 2025
written by February 12, 2025

Idit Ohel, the mother of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, urgently pleaded for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of the remaining Oct. 7 captives held by Hamas amid fears the current ceasefire deal is disintegrating.

‘They have no more time. And please don’t go back to war. Please. Because if that happens, if we go back to war, the hostages could die. The hostages that are alive could die,’ she told Fox News Digital. ‘That’s what happened last time. Last time we saw that after the hostages came out and war started, so many hostages died and were murdered by Hamas. So we cannot let this happen. Please do everything in your power and do something for my son. He’s in the tunnels. He’s crying for help.’ 

Idit Ohel said she received confirmation that her son is still alive from released hostages Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, two of the three gaunt, frail-looking Israelis forced to speak Saturday during a Hamas hand-over ceremony in Gaza. 

The mother said the released hostages, who were held with her son for part of their nearly 500 days in captivity, told her that Alon Ohel is unable to see out of an eye after being struck by shrapnel when Hamas was closing in on Oct. 7, 2023. Alon Ohel, a civilian, was attending the Nova music festival when terrorists attacked, and he took cover in a bomb shelter. Hamas pounded the shelter with grenades and gunfire, and he ‘was taken, wounded, with blood all over him,’ Idit Ohel said. 

Alon Ohel’s ancestors survived the Holocaust, including his great-grandfather who weighed just 30 kilos [about 66 pounds] when he was released from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Idit Ohel said. ‘So if he was alive today, he would probably die instantly just knowing that his great-grandson in the year of 2025 is starving,’ she said. ‘Alon has these genes. So he’s fighting. He’s fighting for his life every day.’ 

Under the deal, another three hostages were due to be released by next Saturday, but Hamas said Monday that the group would not let them go, accusing Israel of violating terms of the ceasefire agreement. 

Concerns that fighting will resume are rising. Trump has since said that Hamas must release all remaining 76 hostages by noon Saturday, or he would demand the ceasefire deal be canceled and ‘let all hell break out.’ Netanyahu backed the demand. 

Israeli media is reporting that Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is being dispatched to Israel and Qatar this week to prevent the ceasefire deal from unraveling. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected in Israel on Saturday. 

To Trump and Netayanhu directly, Idit Ohel said, ‘Do something and bring them home. Please. Please.’ 

‘Give him a chance. It’s unbearable. Something has to change. You have to do everything in your power to bring him home to me, to his family,’ she said. ‘There’s still hostages alive. There’s still hostages alive. Please. Please, do something.’ 

Idit Ohel said she learned her son is being held in tunnels without medical attention and little food and has been ‘tortured, chained and starved.’ 

‘It’s not humane. There’s so much food getting into Gaza, and he’s not getting any of it,’ she said.

‘Alon, right now as we speak, is still being not fed, sleeping on the floor, being chained, constrained. So he cannot move for 494 days,’ Idit Ohel said. ‘My son is important. My son is only an innocent civilian. He went to the Nova festival to have fun. He’s a pianist. He loves music. He did nothing wrong to nobody. We need to get him out now. He cannot continue. This is humanitarian.’ 

Days before Trump took office, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement. Former President Joe Biden said at the time that the first phase involved a ‘surge of humanitarian assistance into Gaza’ – something Idit Ohel stressed her son is not getting. 

She said the International Committee of the Red Cross ‘have never seen Alon and have never seen any of the hostages – [he] didn’t get any treatment.’ 

‘Where is he? Why is he not coming?’ Idit Ohel added. ‘I do not understand it. I will never understand it. This is wrong. This is not moral.’ 

Ohel rallied thousands in Tel Aviv over the weekend on her son’s 24th birthday – the second birthday he has spent in captivity since the Oct. 7 attacks. 

‘I wanted to say happy birthday to my son. I couldn’t even talk [to him] and see and hear his voice,’ she said. ‘When I heard about his condition, I fainted … I haven’t been sleeping for days … I cannot control what Hamas is doing to my son.’ 

‘Every mother in this world. Think just for a second. If there’s one night that your son or daughter doesn’t eat, you can’t even live with yourself,’ Ohel added. ‘My son has not been getting food for 494 days.’

The mother also delivered a message directly to her son. 

‘If you’re listening to me, you know I love you and your father loves you. And we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that you’re home alive. You’re coming home. And there’s so many people all over the world and in Israel that are with you and are praying for you,’ Ohel said, asking fellow musicians to play songs in her son’s honor in the coming days. ‘And you are not alone, Alon. You are not alone.’ 

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