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(18 Dec 2024)
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Kiryat Gat, Israel - 15 December 2024
1.Various of Ilana Gritzewsky, a released hostage, lighting a candle next to photo showing her and partner Matan Zangauker who is held captive in Gaza
2. Photo of Gritzewsky and Zangauker
3. Gritzewsky seated, speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage and partner of Matan Zangauker:
"The 7th of October is like time stopped, but you see all the world running in front of your eyes, while your life is stopped and crushed like tiny pieces of dust. And we can’t think to recover ourselves when I know that Matan and the other 100 hostages are still there in hell.”
5. Gritzewsky with her dog
6. Gritzewsky petting her dog near a poster showing image of Matan Zangauker
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage and partner of Matan Zangauker:
“I see my boyfriend in a video, but now I can’t tell you if he’s alive or now he’s dead. Because I was there, I know the hell that (they are going) through. I open my eyes and I see the hell. I close my eyes and I see the hell. All the small pieces in my body say what happened to me, from the little mark from a burn, the break of my pelvis, my broken mouth, I can’t hear from the ear."
8. Close of Gritzewsky’s eyes
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage and partner of Matan Zangauker:
“The only thing that I can remember from that video, and it’s running in my head all the time, is that he was shouting. He was speaking so silently but his eyes, inside, you can see the shout that he is making for help. So someone can hear them, they are suffering.”
12. Close of Gritzewsky’s hands
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage and partner of Matan Zangauke:
“I know that if we don’t make a deal that brings everyone (home), because all the hostages now are a humanitarian (case) after one year. In two months I lost 12 kilos. After one year the hostages have nothing in their bodies. So all the hostages need to get out, because all the hostages are a humanitarian (case). And if we don’t release all the hostages, who are in captivity, they will be dead.”
14. Gritzewsky with poster in back reading (Hebrew and English) “Matan Zangauker (24)”
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage and partner of Matan Zangauker:
“President Trump, I call you directly because your leadership has the power to make the difference. You have to push both sides to make a deal that ends the war now, and bring all the hostages back.”
16. Photo on shelf showing Matan Zangauker with prayer text
17. Various of Gritzewsky
STORYLINE:
Ilana Gritzewsky is fighting a battle against time to save her boyfriend from Hamas captivity.

While there appears to be progress toward a deal to free the remaining captives in phases, Matan Zangauker would likely not be released in the first stage since he is a young man.

Gritzewsky is terrified a deal could break down or he could die in captivity before he’s freed.

Gritzewsky knows first-hand the perils facing her boyfriend, who turned 25 on Wednesday.

She was kidnapped and held hostage for 55 days before being released during the only previous ceasefire deal a year ago.

“All the hostages need to get out,” said Gritzewsky. “If we don’t release all of the hostages, who are captivity, they will be dead.”

Zangauker and Gritzewsky were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, where they lived together, and then held separately in Gaza.






Around another 100 have not been released, though Israel believes at least a third of them are dead.



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