(29 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ramat Gan, Israel – 28 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Eitan Gonen, father of released hostage Romi, with reporter
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage:
“Human beings. Human beings will do anything to survive. Anything. And since the terrorists don’t speak any other language, other than Arabic, she didn’t have any chance in order to communicate with them, to start learning their language. Simply as that. In order to survive and to communicate, you need to do… You are in Gaza. You are not in Israel. They don’t know Hebrew. They don’t know any other language than Arabic. So she started to, to communicate by speaking their language. Yes."
++Reporter asking UPSOUND (English):
"And when she came out, she was speaking it as well as what the article said, just sort of by habit?”
++Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage, replies (English) “I’m sure "I’m sure that she, after 471 days in Gaza and she knows. She knows Arabic in a certain way. Yes."
++Reporter asking UPSOUND (English) “Did she speak any before she was taken?”
++Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage replies (English) “No, no. no.”
3. Cutaway of Gonen’s hands
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage:
“Still, we have a long, long way to go. The rehabilitation status has just started. And basically, we started a journey, a long journey. And she needs to listen to us to what we have done for her for 471 days, and we did a lot. And we have the time to listen to her because… She just.. She was just reborn now. And we have a life span to listen to her, and to her stories or whatever she she has been through for so many days In Gaza."
5. Cutaway of Gonen’s hands
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage:
“All we know is that for a certain time she was with Emily Damari (released hostage) at the same place, and they helped each other to survive. And you know… what they do everyday, every hour, every minute in captivity by terrorists? Is just the want to survive the next minute, the next hour, or the next day. And being, both of them, in the same place helped them a lot, and I wonder.. and because… I don’t know if all the rest of the hostages are In a group or by themselves. I don’t know. But being with another one helped them a lot. Both of them. Both of them had each other to survive."
++Reporter asking UPSOUND (English): “Did she say how they helped each other, was it a conversation, was it companionship?
++Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage, replies (English):
“Of course. A conversation or whatever is needed to survive, they did it together. Yes, for sure. I just didn’t hear about this, but I can imagine. Being in Gaza alone for so many days, It’s… I cannot even imagine this. But being together with someone because Romi and Emily didn’t knew each other before the October 7th. They met somewhere in Gaza and I believe God set it up somehow that Emily and Romi, both of them… because it’s a dynamic duo."
7. Eitan Gonen, father of Romi, released hostage, with reporter
STORYLINE:
For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity. He didn’t know if she would hear him, but he ended every interview he gave with the same hopeful message: Romi is coming home alive.
When he finally got to speak to his daughter for the first time in 15 months after she and two other women were freed Jan. 19, he got his answer.
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