After They Returned Families recount captivity

Oct 7, 2023

Tali Moreno launches Kan's three-evening After They Returned project from Hostages Square and introduces six families' continuing physical, emotional and household struggles. The complete feature preserves pre-attack lives, assumptions about security, and interwoven October 7 testimony. Bat-Sheva Yahalomi recalls Ohad leaving the safe room, being shot, family members forced onto motorcycles, Eitan carried toward Gaza and her escape with her daughters. Avihai Brodutch recounts his wounds, taking a bloodied girl home, Hagar's last message, silence from his family and later hope after their home's survival. Vicky Cohen describes recognizing Nimrod's abduction from his tank in Hamas footage. Orit Meir recalls Almog's last call from Nova, fear, uncertainty and organizing with her brother. Gilad and Nitza Korngold describe their transformed lives and hope when no bodies were found. The separate next-chapter excerpt retains Orit's complete account of learning in Tiberias that Almog was rescued alive and flown to Tel Hashomer. The family testimony is retrospective and source-attributed; individual release dates or outcomes not supplied in this feature are not inferred.

Bat-Sheva Yahalomi recounts attackers reaching her family's Nir Oz home on October 7, 2023, Ohad leaving the safe-room door to defend them and being wounded, and their forced departure on two motorcycles. Eitan is carried separately toward Gaza; Bat-Sheva and her daughters fall near the fence when tanks appear, are forced into a roadside container and escape when a tank passes nearby. She describes the lasting pain of running in the opposite direction from her son and her realization that he is missing. Her belief at that moment that Ohad was dead is her contemporaneous perception, not a verified death date. The October 4 preview and October 5 complete family feature describe the same attack and escape; neither passage establishes later captivity outcomes.