Rebuilding Life After Captivity
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Hostage US executive director Liz Cathcart about that process.
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| 0:00.0 | videos have been coming out over the past few days of the hostages released by Hamas |
| 0:11.2 | reuniting with their families. |
| 0:13.6 | And one of the most powerful shows a nine-year-old boy named Ohad Mundersakri. |
| 0:18.9 | In the video, he's being led around the corner and he sees his father standing at the other end of a hospital hallway. |
| 0:26.0 | The father he hasn't seen in nearly 50 days. |
| 0:31.5 | Bojad sprints into his dad's arms and his dad lifts him into a giant hug. |
| 0:37.4 | There are barely any words in that video, but the sense of relief is overwhelming. |
| 0:44.5 | A photo from the hospital shows Ohad solving a Rubik's cube, |
| 0:48.4 | just as he loved to do before October 7th. |
| 0:52.2 | But so much else has changed since Ohad and his mother and grandmother were taken captive by |
| 0:58.0 | Hamas during the attack on their kibbutz. |
| 1:00.6 | They seem fine physically, mentally they're still in shock. It's been quite a nightmare for us and obviously for them. |
| 1:08.8 | It's a tie reviv is Ohad's cousin. He spoke by phone to Ohad and to his mother and |
| 1:14.8 | grandmother after their release. They're slowly gradually getting back into reality |
| 1:20.0 | into understanding what happened in Israel, what happened to their family. |
| 1:24.1 | Ohad's mother learned her brother was killed in the attack. |
| 1:28.1 | They learned that Ohad's grandfather is likely still alive but still held hostage by Hamas. |
| 1:34.0 | When he Thai Reviv talked to NPR on Saturday, |
| 1:37.0 | the family was still at the hospital, |
| 1:40.0 | surrounded by doctors and therapists and social workers to help them put their lives back together after this harrowing ordeal. |
| 1:48.8 | I don't think you can recover duck weekly from being held by a Fer first organization for seven weeks, especially if you're a nine-year-old boy. |
| 1:57.1 | Consider this. Dozens of hostages have been freed, but that's just the beginning of the road back to a normal life. |
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