MIAMI – It is really the New 12 months, but just one South Florida family members claims they’re nonetheless caught in 2023 as their beloved a person is nevertheless held captive by Hamas.
The family described 21-year-aged Omer Shem-Tov as a loving, outgoing gentleman.
“He’s the form of dude that when you fulfill him, you tumble in like with him,” Noa Shem-Tov mentioned, “since he’s just so amusing, and he is so loving, and he has so several mates.”
On October 7th, Omer went to the Nova Songs Pageant, the live performance in the desert Hamas focused.
“He instructed us that he is making an attempt to get to the car with his pals,” Noa reported. “So we requested him to ship a location so we can keep track of him on the way property.”
Omer stopped answering. Noa and her relatives watched as his place moved closer to the Gaza border.
“Then that evening, we been given a video of him and in the movie we observed him just tied up in the back of a pickup truck with the other friend that he was with,” Noa reported.
In the 88 times since, Noa mentioned lifetime has not moved ahead.
“It is challenging due to the fact we just entered a new year, 2024, and everyone you know has new hopes and dreams for the new year,” she said, “but for us and the other people, we are however on Oct 7, 2023, and right until absolutely everyone is introduced, we cannot transfer on with our lives.”
Some hostages, generally women and children, have been introduced.
“Two of his good friends that went alongside one another to the party received unveiled, and we know they’ve been jointly with Omer,” Noa reported. “So they told us a small bit about the affliction that they had been in, and they explained to us about how terrible that is, and how they haven’t noticed the light of working day and it can be, it can be heartbreaking.”
Noa flew to Israel right away and used two months there. She’s back home in Aventura now, but is heading to keep accomplishing what she can from right here.
“I just want to tell him that we pass up him terribly, and we like him,” Noa reported. “We’re undertaking regardless of what we can to convey him dwelling. I just want him to have a hope that he is heading to return back because I are not able to visualize what he is heading as a result of.”
