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

    by Julia Frankel Jan 16, 2024 6 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press All rights reserved

    Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border, Sharon Alony Cunio gazed at the distant skyline of Khan Younis, the Palestinian city where Hamas militants dragged her more than three months ago. Her husband, David, remains captive in Gaza.

    He’s kilometers away but completely out of reach.

    Cunio and her 3-year-old twins were released from Gaza on Nov. 27. They are physically healthy, safe. But she can't stop thinking about her husband's last words to her. He was skinny and frail, wounded in the leg, as the family embraced for a final time in captivity.

    “Fight for me. Don't give up," she said he told her. “Please yell what I cannot yell. I'm scared as hell.”

    David Cunio is among scores of captives believed to be alive in Gaza after 120 hostages, including his wife and daughters, were freed during a weeklong cease-fire.

    As days spin by, punctuated by reports that other

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