Released Oct. 7 hostage reflects on traumatic kidnapping and finding her voice
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One year on from the Hamas attacks of last October 7th, the war, pain, anguish, and heartbreak |
| 0:07.2 | continue on a daily basis. |
| 0:09.8 | And the persistent memories of that day are no more acute than for those who survived both the attack and the subsequent kidnapping in to Gaza. |
| 0:18.0 | Superior Cohen was on Caboose near Oz that day and held for nearly two months by Hamas. |
| 0:24.0 | Nick Chiffran met with her recently, a woman transformed by appalling cruelty, |
| 0:29.0 | but who is now finding her own voice. |
| 0:31.0 | On the morning of October the 7th, a tide of terror rolled into Kibwits near Oz. |
| 0:37.0 | They broadcast, kidnapped, and killed. kidnapped and |
| 0:45.0 | killed residents and entered this home were Superior Cohen and her boyfriend Sasha Truffinov were hiding in a bedroom. |
| 0:52.0 | Cohen accepted her fate. |
| 0:54.2 | I didn't send a message to my parents. |
| 0:58.5 | I didn't want to say something with the meaning of goodbye. |
| 1:04.0 | So I decided just to say my prayer and I'm saying that again and again and |
| 1:12.0 | again and again and finally I felt something deep inside of me I felt peace. |
| 1:19.9 | As she was taken she felt overwhelming terror and profound regret. |
| 1:25.0 | God, please. |
| 1:27.0 | It can't be. |
| 1:29.0 | I never did something meaningful in my life. |
| 1:39.6 | I never did something meaningful in my life. |
| 1:49.6 | And that was my last wish. |
| 1:57.0 | Just keep me alive and give me the chance to do something. |
| 2:05.0 | But first she faced more terror as she arrived in Gaza a mob was waiting. |
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