A freed Israeli hostage relives horrors of captivity, is fearful for her husband still held in Gaza

Описание: (16 Jan 2024)
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Nir Oz, Israel - 15 January 2024
1. Sharon Alony Cunio, a released hostage, walking near the fence of Kibbutz Nir Oz, UPSOUND (Hebrew) "We came out from here - from here they took us"
2. Cunio walking outside her burnt house
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"Even at that moment, he always managed to make a joke. I told him, 'you're the best man I have ever known.' And he told me, 'it's about time you figure it out.' And he told me, 'Fight for me, don't give up. Please yell what I can't yell, please help me to get out.' He told me 'I'm scared as hell.' This was the last sentence, 'I'm scared as hell."
4. Various of Cunio inside her burnt house looking at the damage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"I started to lose consciousness. And at that point Danielle told me, she shook me and said, 'Let's open the window and get out, it's much better off that they shoot us and that there will no pain, no suffering instead of watching all of us choke up to death in here with the girls.'"
6. Family picture on Cunio's phone
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"I had a mental breakdown, I had tics, I had panic attacks a lot of the times. They didn't give me the pills I'm usually taken for my antidepressants in Israel."
8. Burnt kitchen
9. Kitchen utensils on the ground
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"After about nine days, the house next to us was bombed and they decided to move us because all the walls came from, like, tumbling down on us with glass and everything. So they brought in an ambulance, disguised David as a corpse, covered him with a white sheet, put me in a traditional Arab clothes, puts Yuli in my hands with a sheet over her and told me to look down. They put us inside the ambulance, which took us to the hospital in Khan Younis, which we stayed there up until the end."
11. Cunio looking outside the window and smoking a cigarette in her burnt house
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"The basic thing that they took from us, our independence of basic things like go to the bathroom. My kids had to do. They had to pee in the sink and do number twos in the trash because you cannot, but you can never know when they open. Sometimes it would take 5 minutes, sometimes it could take 2 hours, like animals in a cage."
13. Empty chocolate pudding left with spoon in
14. Children's clothes left in room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"When we were moved to the hospital, it got severe because we only got pita bread which was moldy, and this box of feta cheese, which is supposed to be in the fridge, but we can't, so we just opened it and ate it. We all had diarrhea and throwing up. And at noontime, around three or four usually, they brought us this plate with rice, very spicy rice and a little piece of meat. It was like six of those for 12 people so a lot of people, which I'm thankful for, took out food from their mouths for our girls."
16. Burnt door from reinforced room
17. Cunio in her children's bedroom
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Alony Cunio, released hostage:
"A lot of the times the girls were just crying, 'I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I don't have anything. And I was crying with them. 'I'm sorry. I don't have food to give you. There is no food. I'm sorry.' It was devastating to me because me and David always talked about that the one thing we would never be cheap about is food."
19. Exterior of Cunio's family house
21. Destruction outside house
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