AP Archive | A former hostage fought for her life in Gaza. A year on, she fights for her husband's freedom @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
(1 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
1. Establisher shot of Aviva Siegel, freed hostage, UPSOUND (English): "It is beyond, it is just beyond, what do we suppose to do, I've been to the states (U.S.) seven, eight times."
2. Close of Siegel’s eyes
3. Close of photo of Aviva’s husband, Keith Seigel, hostage held in Gaza, printed on T-shirt worn by Aviva
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND OVERLAID SHOT
"We had to beg, beg for water, beg. And beg for food. I used to, I got to a stage that I used to give Keith some of my food because he was losing weight. And then I started hiding food for him and he said, -I'm not going to eat it. You need to eat it. You have to eat it because you're losing weight too. But I did it. I wanted Keith to eat it."
5. Zoom-in of printed screenshot from a video released by Hamas showing Siegel’s husband Keith in black shirt while in captivity
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND OVERLAID SHOT5++
"Hostages were chained, tortured, starved, beaten up into pieces, I saw that in front of my eyes. That's what they did to us."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
7. Siegel showing photo of her husband Keith Seigel with their grandchildren
8. Close-up of photo Keith Seigel with their grandchildren
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
“The hostages, they are being left to die, to die slowly. How can I handle that? How can I? I just don't know how to handle it anymore.”
STORYLINE:
As a hostage in Gaza, Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water.
Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his ongoing captivity.
Siegel has come to embody the disaster that befell Israel on Oct. 7.
Hamas gunmen snatched her from her home and thrust her into Gaza’s web of tunnels.
Released during a brief cease-fire last year, she returned to find her community destroyed and became one of tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by conflict this year.
And she has emerged as a prominent voice in the struggle to free the remaining hostages, fighting tirelessly for her husband’s release.
But as her ordeal reaches the one-year mark, Israel’s attention is focused not on the plight of the hostages and their families, but on fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It's the latest diversion to chip away at Siegel's hope that she may reunite with her husband of 43 years anytime soon.
“The hostages, they are being left to die. To die slowly. How can I handle that? I just don’t know how to handle it anymore,” she said, sitting beside a poster of her husband, Keith, 65, an American-Israeli originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Her torment is all the more acute because she knows firsthand what her husband is enduring.
“Hostages were chained, tortured, starved, beaten up into pieces. I saw that in front of my eyes. That’s what they did to us,” she said from a short-term rental apartment in Tel Aviv, one of the many places she has lived since her return during the November cease-fire, the first and only deal reached between Israel and Hamas during the war.
Netanyahu has also argued that the pressure on Hezbollah will in turn lead to pressure on its ally Hamas and help speed up the release of the hostages.
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(1 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
1. Establisher shot of Aviva Siegel, freed hostage, UPSOUND (English): "It is beyond, it is just beyond, what do we suppose to do, I've been to the states (U.S.) seven, eight times."
2. Close of Siegel’s eyes
3. Close of photo of Aviva’s husband, Keith Seigel, hostage held in Gaza, printed on T-shirt worn by Aviva
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND OVERLAID SHOT
"We had to beg, beg for water, beg. And beg for food. I used to, I got to a stage that I used to give Keith some of my food because he was losing weight. And then I started hiding food for him and he said, -I'm not going to eat it. You need to eat it. You have to eat it because you're losing weight too. But I did it. I wanted Keith to eat it."
5. Zoom-in of printed screenshot from a video released by Hamas showing Siegel’s husband Keith in black shirt while in captivity
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND OVERLAID SHOT5++
"Hostages were chained, tortured, starved, beaten up into pieces, I saw that in front of my eyes. That's what they did to us."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
7. Siegel showing photo of her husband Keith Seigel with their grandchildren
8. Close-up of photo Keith Seigel with their grandchildren
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 29 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviva Siegel, freed hostage:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
“The hostages, they are being left to die, to die slowly. How can I handle that? How can I? I just don't know how to handle it anymore.”
STORYLINE:
As a hostage in Gaza, Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water.
Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his ongoing captivity.
Siegel has come to embody the disaster that befell Israel on Oct. 7.
Hamas gunmen snatched her from her home and thrust her into Gaza’s web of tunnels.
Released during a brief cease-fire last year, she returned to find her community destroyed and became one of tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by conflict this year.
And she has emerged as a prominent voice in the struggle to free the remaining hostages, fighting tirelessly for her husband’s release.
But as her ordeal reaches the one-year mark, Israel’s attention is focused not on the plight of the hostages and their families, but on fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It's the latest diversion to chip away at Siegel's hope that she may reunite with her husband of 43 years anytime soon.
“The hostages, they are being left to die. To die slowly. How can I handle that? I just don’t know how to handle it anymore,” she said, sitting beside a poster of her husband, Keith, 65, an American-Israeli originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Her torment is all the more acute because she knows firsthand what her husband is enduring.
“Hostages were chained, tortured, starved, beaten up into pieces. I saw that in front of my eyes. That’s what they did to us,” she said from a short-term rental apartment in Tel Aviv, one of the many places she has lived since her return during the November cease-fire, the first and only deal reached between Israel and Hamas during the war.
Netanyahu has also argued that the pressure on Hezbollah will in turn lead to pressure on its ally Hamas and help speed up the release of the hostages.
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