The ex-host friend SOUSSANA receives the international prize for women of courage in the United States

Accepting the international price of international courage of the courage of the American State Department, the former survivor of hostages and sexual assault of Hamas, Amit Soussana, called on Tuesday for global action to guarantee the immediate release of the remaining captives in Gaza.

“It is an incredible honor to stand in front of you today, but it is also a deeply painful moment,” said Soussana, who was one of the eight women around the world awarded at a ceremony of the State Department in Washington, but the only requested to give personal cries by the United States.

SOUSSANA received the Prix de Rubio and the First Lady Melania Trump.

“While I am here, my friends stay in darkness. Five hundred and forty-three long days and nights. They always suffer, always wait, always hoping. Their voices remain unknown. So I’m going to talk to them. We cannot go ahead until they are free, “she said in her remarks.

Soussana was removed on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led thousands of attackers in an invasion in southern Israel. The assault killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, terrorists also removing 251 people in hostages to the Gaza Strip, triggering the war in progress.

Images have shown the moments when a crowd of armed men dragged sousaana through a captive field in Gaza. The Israeli woman could be seen kicking and fighting against her kidnappers, dropping one of them on the ground, how the terrorists beat her. Soussana agreed to make known the images after her release, and she was first broadcast on Channel 12 News.

Amit Sousanna was removed in Gaza by 2 terrorists from Hamas and 7 other “innocent civilians” from Gazan ” pic.twitter.com/byywjmelot

– Hamas atrocities (@hamasatrocities) October 7, 2024

It was released as part of the first release of hostages and the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in November 2023, which lasted a week. Another ceasefire contract, mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar, was reached in January this year and included the release of dozens of hostages into small lots, but the truce collapsed after several weeks when Israel resumed the fighting.

There are currently 59 hostages still held in Gaza, at least 24 of them still believed alive and held in appalling conditions. Many returned hostages, and in particular those of the second ceasefire, described being detained in wet tunnels without fresh air or light, in abyssal sanitation conditions, including famine and physical and psychological abuses.

Since her release, Soussana has pleaded worldwide in the name of those who are always held in Gaza and have become the first former hostage to speak of sexual violence that she endured in captivity.

“In captivity, I had no control over my body, no control over my life. I resisted as best as possible, but it was not enough to stop what happened to me, “she said.

“Suffocate darkness. However, even in darkness, there was one thing that they could not have taken from me, the strength that my mother instilled in me. The belief that we must always defend what is right, regardless of the cost.”

“I have sworn that if I survived, I would never be silent. I would speak – not only for me, but for every woman who had been silenced,” said Soussana. “When I told my story for the first time, I only wanted to make horrors aware of captivity and terror of October 7, but my story became a much greater conversation – one on sexual violence, war and unimaginable force of women in the face of brutality.”

“In Israel, we are about to celebrate Passover-the history of liberation, to free ourselves from servitude. But it will be the second Passover that the hostages remain in captivity,” she deplored.

“I accept this price, not for myself, but on behalf of all the courageous women of Israel, the women who endure, who led, who refused to break. Women are stronger. We are stronger sex, not because we do not feel pain, but because we were, because we are fighting-not only for ourselves, but for those who cannot fight for themselves. “

“This price arrives at a critical moment. The hostages cannot wait. Each day passing is another day of unimaginable suffering. At each passing moment, their pain is deepened, their hope fades and their chances of survival decrease,” she said.

“I call the world to act to bring them home now, not tomorrow, not next week. NOW.”

Negotiations to relaunch the January ceasefire process have so far not borne fruit.

Mass demonstrations in Israel have urged the government to conclude a radical agreement which would bring home all the remaining, dead and lively hostages, in one go rather than the creeping outings that we see so far.