CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Who is Orna Shimoni? 83-Year-Old Bereaved Mother Starts Hunger Strike Outside Knesset to Demand Hostage Deal [#OrnaShimoni]
CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Who is Orna Shimoni? 83-Year-Old Bereaved Mother Starts Hunger Strike Outside Knesset to Demand Hostage Deal [#OrnaShimoni]
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Orna Shimoni (4 mothers) started a hunger strike near the Knesset for the return of the abductees 🎗️
A veteran Israeli anti-war activist, whose soldier son was killed in Lebanon in 1997, began a hunger strike outside the Knesset on Friday, urging the government to bring back the hostages.
Orna Shimoni, 83, stated that the hunger strike will begin the day after the death anniversary of her son Eyal.
“I decided to go on a hunger strike to bring back all the hostages at the end of the memorial evening in his memory,” Shimoni told Israel’s Kibbutz Movement, urging people to join her outside the Knesset in Jerusalem.
Shimoni, who has been active in campaigning for the return of soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, told Ynet that she initially kept her hunger strike a secret and has prevented her children from treating her if she becomes ill.
“My children don’t stop crying. Six million people need to come out here and show the lawmakers that the majority of the people want to bring back the hostages.”
– Orna Shimoni
Over the last 11 months, a number of relatives of hostages held in Gaza have gone on temporary hunger strikes.
Shimoni was a longtime member of the Four Mothers group, which campaigned for Israel’s withdrawal from the so-called security zone in southern Lebanon.
The group was disbanded after the IDF withdrew in 2000.
It is believed that 97 of the 251 captives captured by Hamas on October 7 are still in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.
During a weeklong truce in late November, Hamas released 105 people, and 4 hostages had previously been released.
Troops have rescued 8 hostages alive, and the bodies of 37 hostages have been recovered, including 3who were mistakenly by the military while attempting to flee their captors.
Hamas also detained 2 Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of 2 IDF soldiers killed in 2014.
NEWS SOURCE & LINKS:
The Times of Israel
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