The NY Times published this story earlier today and it’s disturbing for a couple of reasons. Chen Goldstein-Almog and her family lived in kibbutz Kfar Aza near the border with Gaza. On Oct. 7 Hamas terrorists murdered her husband and eldest daughter in front of her and then kidnapped her and her remaining three children. The Times doesn’t spend any time discussing the attack. Instead we get Chen’s description of being a hostage which, fortunately, didn’t involve any further violence.
She said she and the children were held together, treated “respectfully” and not physically harmed. But she said that over the course of various moves during their captivity, she had met other hostages who were badly treated, including two women who said they were sexually abused.
Mostly, they were held in a room in an apartment in Gaza, she said, with the windows closed except for a bit…
