{"id":482098,"date":"2025-09-09T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mate-of-the-kidnapped-703-days-of-memory-and-hope-in-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:05:03","slug":"mate-of-the-kidnapped-703-days-of-memory-and-hope-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/mate-of-the-kidnapped-703-days-of-memory-and-hope-in-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mate of the Kidnapped: 703 days of memory and hope in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tel Aviv<\/strong>.- During our visit to the Hostages&#8217; Mate \u2013 Forum of Hostages&#8217; Families, we found a space filled with symbolism and memory, created to keep alive the voice of those who still remain in captivity in Gaza since October 7, 2023.<\/h6>\n\n\nHigh in the trees hang the photographs of the 48 kidnapped people who still remain in Gaza, of the 251 people, of whom, according to the army, 25 are dead, and around 20 are believed to be alive, two remain unconfirmed and the rest have already been declared dead.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/se-activan-las-alarmas-en-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alerts activated in Israel after attack on Hamas leaders<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe place is full of elements with deep meanings:\n\n\u2022 The pita bread depicted in a mural, in memory of the testimonies of those liberated who recounted having survived by eating barely half a pita a day in the tunnels.\n\n\u2022 Alon Oed&#8217;s piano, kidnapped at the Nova festival, today replaced by a replica that everyone can play as a symbol of his presence and resilience.\n\n\u2022 The monument of the <a href=\"https:\/\/patrimonioypaisaje.madrid.es\/portales\/monumenta\/es\/Monumentos-y-Edificios-Singulares\/Monumentos\/El-Abrazo\/?vgnextfmt=default&amp;vgnextoid=0e28091d1b9c4510091d1b9c45102e085a0aRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=8fac3cb702aa4510VgnVCM1000008a4a900aRCRD\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/patrimonioypaisaje.madrid.es\/portales\/monumenta\/es\/Monumentos-y-Edificios-Singulares\/Monumentos\/El-Abrazo\/?vgnextfmt=default&amp;vgnextoid=0e28091d1b9c4510091d1b9c45102e085a0aRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=8fac3cb702aa4510VgnVCM1000008a4a900aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrace<\/a>, which symbolizes the fight to prevent the memory of the kidnapped from fading.\n\n\u2022 A replica tunnel, 20 to 25 meters long, that allows visitors to feel for a few seconds what it means to live in the dark, as the captives have done for more than 700 days.\n\nThe space is strategically located in front of the Tel Aviv Courthouse and the Kirya, the central base of the army, where national security decisions are made. There, a digital clock counts the days since the October 7 attack: 703 days, while the hours and minutes continue to add up.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"531630\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-09-at-1.42.32-PM-1-1024x546.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531630\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"531631\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-09-at-1.42.31-PM-1024x583.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531631\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Aviv.- During our visit to the Hostages&#8217; Mate \u2013 Forum of Hostages&#8217; Families, we found a space filled with symbolism and memory, created to keep alive the voice of those who still remain in captivity in Gaza since October 7, 2023. High in the trees hang the photographs of the 48 kidnapped people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":482100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[29939],"class_list":["post-482098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-tel-aviv"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21pM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-09-at-1.42.32-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-09-at-1.42.32-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}