In recent months, Yael Sherer, president of the Sexual Violence Survivors Advocacy Group, which was created in Israel in 2019, has been traveling the world. Since November he has traveled to Oslo, Helsinki, Paris, London, Dubrovnik, Moscow and now he has come to Athens. She arrived yesterday to speak to MPs and government officials about Hamas' sexual violence against Israeli citizens, and not just, she says, on October 7 and 8. "Rape is a war crime and we should talk about it," she tells "K" a few hours after her arrival.
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An Israeli peace activist who was abducted from her home on October 7 and held hostage for 53 days in Gaza has told the BBC how her ordeal has shattered her belief that peace is possible between Palestinians and Israelis.
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On 19.6 2024, International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Embassy of Israel in Greece, in a symbolic action, hosted at its headquarters in Athens the Israeli activist Yael Sherer, founder and head of the Support Group for Survivors of Sexual Violence (# SSVAG), and representatives of Greek women's organizations.
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Her husband and daughter were murdered in the October 7 invasion. Hen Almog Goldstein was found a few hours later captive with her three other children in a tunnel in Gaza. Today, six months after her release, she is asking the Israeli government to release the hostages from their torture
By Athanasios Katsikidis
The phone rings, the weak voice of Hen Almog Goldstein on the other line. "Please give me another 20 minutes." Stand by.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed the Kfar Aza kibbutz and executed her husband, Nadav, and her eldest daughter, Yam, while the terrorists kidnapped her and her three children in Gaza. They were held captive for 51 days. Six months after her release from the 'nightmare', Hen gave an exclusive interview to 'K'.
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Shocking and emotional moments unfolded when the four Israeli hostages who had been held by Hamas for eight months in a camp were reunited with their families on 8.6.2024.
The Noa Argamani, 26 years old, Almog Meir Jan, 22 years old, Andrei Kozlov, 27 years old, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were released on Saturday 8.6.2024, eight months after they were abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023. All four relieved and with tears in their eyes fell into the arms of their own people who all of them for months they had not stopped hoping for a miracle.
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