Alon Ohelis was taken from the “Death Shelter” after escaping from the Nova Music Festival. Now, two years later, Hamas in captivity, he finally returns home.
It is expected that after more than two years Hamas in captivity, 24-year-old Alon Ohelis will finally return home to the corpse in the northern Israel. The citizen of Germany and Serbia and Israel was kidnapped from the shelter in 2023. October 7, after running from the Nova Music Festival.
Concern for Alon Rose after Hamas released propaganda videos in September, showing that he was in poor health. The hostages released also testified that he had lost his vision in one of the eyes and suffered from the wounds of the shrapnel caused by the day of the kidnapping.
Ronen Ohelis in February He said to Walla that the hostage issued in the last agreement confirmed his brother’s misconduct.
It was said that Alon, Ronen, was stored in Hamas underground tunnels from November to February. Explaining the difficult conditions for his brother, Ronen said Alon was hard to feed and was only fed with one piece of pita bread during the day.
In September, a video of Hamas propaganda was released, featuring Alonas and colleagues’ hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal. The title with the phrase “Time is over”, the couple shows the couple obviously nourished properly.
The silent piano awaits the gifted pianist and the hostage Alon Ohel. (Credit: Yonatan Verstandig)
The Alon’s family said the video they asked were not released, left to “tremble and hurt”.
Alon was briefly organized with former hostages to Eli Shararabi, who described Alona as his “best friend for 14 months” or Levy and Eliyah Cohen in his newly published book. Three men were launched in the past.
Hostage to Israeli Alon Ohel’s family in 2025. April 28th. Organizes a press conference hostage Square in Tel Aviv. (Credit: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
“The fact that I am here and not is just a success. I am not calm with it,” he said or, describing the guilt he felt that he was forced to leave the alone. “When they told us we were going home, they told Alon that he also had a date. The last time I hugged him and said, ‘Let’s see, we’ll see soon,’ and it didn’t happen.”
“Eight months after my return, it still hurts,” he said, talking about the collapsed rounds of negotiations that shocked his own release. “They reached the well, were properly nourished and waited for the next list – and then everything collapsed. They stayed in the pit.”
Smuggling a card from captivity
While in captivity, it was said that Alon was maintained by tapping his fingers as if playing the piano. The Serbian Times also reported that this year he successfully smughed his birthday card to his sister, entrusted the card hostage issued in a previous agreement.
According to Jewish News, Alon will be one of many hostages to discover new citizenship. Alon’s grandmother Tzipi Ohel, born in Berlin and 1949. Went to Israel, surviving the Holocaust, left him the right to German citizenship, which was granted to him in his absence.
According to Barrons, Alonas was started to study music before his abduction, only a few weeks after traveling in Asia. His brother said he hoped the first thing Alon would do after his return was the piano. “
His family, like many of those who have been taken, spent the last two years campaign officials to make a deal for his release.
Serbian President Alexander Vučić, one of many international officials last year’s Jerusalem Post, said last week: “We are greatly facilitated by the news that our citizen Alon Ohelis can be one of them to run during the first phase of this agreement.
Alex Winston contributed to this report.