YARDEN GONEN: Thank you, President Trump, for rescuing my sister from Hamas
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Yarden Gonen, whose sister Romi was held hostage by Hamas for 471 days, expresses her gratitude to President Trump for securing her sister's release as part of the hostage for ceasefire deal.
Yarden Gonen is the sister of former Hamas hostage Romi Gonen. Romi was held captive by Hamas for 471 days before. Yarden lives in Tel Aviv and is the oldest of five siblings.
I will never be able to forget the horrors of that day. Romi was just 23 when Hamas terrorists kidnapped her from the NOVA festival. In her terrifying final moments of freedom, she was on the phone with our mother as she tried to flee the site in a vehicle with her friends. Her last words still haunt us - she said the driver was dead, and that her best friend Gaya had been shot and wasn't responding. She told us she was shot in her hand and would bleed to death if help didn't arrive quickly.