Huge demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the abductees remaining in the Gaza Strip / Amir Goldstein
Jordan Roman Gat, who was released from Hamas captivity last month, spoke in an interview with US media about the fear of sexual abuse in captivity. "As a woman, the fear of rape and abuse like that doesn't come out of your head, it's not an option," Jordan said on "60 Minutes," which airs Sunday on CBS. "As long as you're there, you're helpless. You have no protection, you can't resist anything because it might cost your life. That fear wasn't always as intense, but it's always there."
On the decision to hand over her 3-year-old daughter Geffen to her husband Alon while they were trying to escape the terrorists, Jordan said: "It was not a difficult choice, leaving her with me knowing that we would both die or be taken to Gaza would have been worse. I had no choice. There was no hesitation." Jordan was asked why she decided to be interviewed. "My sister Carmel and other abductees are still in Gaza. If we can do anything that helps, we will," she replied.
Yarden with her daughter Geffen and her husband Alon on the evening of her return from captivity/official website, IDF Spokesperson
Roman Gat was released late last month as part of the hostage deal after 54 days in captivity and returned to her family. Less than a week later, she arrived for a meeting with the War Cabinet. "From the moment she heard about the end of the pauses and pauses, she wanted to do everything she could. Let the cabinet hear her, how urgent it is to bring them back," her brother Gili Roman said. He noted that the abductees made an effort to attend the meeting in order to "share the seriousness of the matter, and what a day in captivity in Gaza means. Let the cabinet feel it directly."
Yarden, 36, from Givatayim, was abducted from Kibbutz Be'eri. During the attempted abduction of Yarden, her husband Alon and her three-year-old daughter Geffen jumped out of the van heading towards Gaza and fled, with Jordan handing Geffen into Alon's hands, and while on the run they split up. She was located by the terrorists and taken to the Gaza Strip, and they hid in bushes until they spotted soldiers a day later and waited for her for nearly two months. Carmel Gat, Alon's sister, is still in captivity.
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