(11 Apr 2025)
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Nahal Oz, Israel – 09 April 2025
1. Establishing shot of Omri Miran’s wife, Lishay smoking a cigarette at entrance of her house
2. T-shirt hung at entrance of hostage Omri Miran’s house reading (English) “Bring Omri Home”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lishay Miran Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran:
++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 1,2,4++
“From October 7th I have two jobs: to bring Omri home, my husband, and to take care of my two daughters that Omri, kidnapped, their father kidnapped in front of their eyes. And that’s it, I don’t really have the time to handle with myself.”
4. Various of bullet holes on shelter
5. Framed family photograph of Omri, Lishay and their two children
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lishay Miran Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran:
++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 5 & 7++
"Before two days, when they’re sitting in the kindergarten, Roni asked from her friends to help her to bring daddy home. They celebrate the Pesach in the Kindergarten, and this is what she told to her friends. Please help me to bring my daddy home."
7. Poster of Omri on door
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lishay Miran Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran:
++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 9-12++
“I really want that everyone, not just in Pesach, not just in a holiday, every day, just imagine to themselves what it means not to be in captivity, because we can’t understand what it means really. Even me don’t really understand what is means to be at Hamas, held by Hamas for a long time like this. Let’s just imagine that… You can’t send a message to your loved ones. You can’t sit with them to the table. You can’t speak with them. You can’t hug them. You can’t do anything with them."
9. Destruction in Gaza seen from Nahal Oz
10. Nahal Oz border fence
11. Lishay smoking in front of her house
12. Destruction in Gaza seen from Nahal Oz
STORYLINE:
Across Israel, Jews will mark the start of the Passover holiday on Saturday night, gathering around the table to recount the biblical story of the exodus from Egypt and liberation from slavery.
Families of the hostages still being held in Gaza are feeling the absence of their loved ones even more acutely during the second Passover since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
Fifty-nine hostages are being held in Gaza, of whom 24 are still believed to be alive.
Lishay Miran Lavi, whose husband Omri is a hostage, recalls Passover two years ago, which fell just four days after she gave birth to her second daughter, Alma.
“Alma didn’t really understand what it means daddy, you know. It’s one year and a half. It’s the most part of her life she’s without her dad,” she said.
Alma was six months old when Hamas militants burst into their home on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, forcing Lishay, Omri, Alma, and their other daughter Roni, 2, into the home of their neighbors.
Militants, who had just killed the other family’s 18-year-old daughter, broadcast a Facebook livestream of everyone being held hostage in the kitchen, before kidnapping the fathers, Omri Miran and Tsachi Idan, to Gaza.
Hamas killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 during their cross-border attack on southern Israel.
Israeli bombardment of Gaza since then has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which says women and children make up more than half the fatalities but does not distinguish between civilians and fighters.
Idan’s body was released during the last hostage exchange.
Omri Miran, who will turn 48 on Friday, is now the oldest hostage still believed to be alive in Gaza.
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