Speaking just hours after her father’s homecoming, Noam Peri remarked that she was “always optimistic—it’s a trait I got from my father.”
“I think, honestly, there’s no other option,” she continued. We just must not pass up this chance; I believe that everyone, on all sides, is in dire need of it right now.
“I do really, really hope that they would be willing to make the necessary compromises and make this happen.”
On October 7, after 1,200 people were slain by Hamas in southern Israel, 80-year-old Chaim Peri was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz and taken it.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, over 40,000 Palestinians have died in the area since the war began as a result of Israel’s retaliatory military operation against Hamas; the ministry does not specify the number of terrorists among the casualties.
Before being taken into custody and sent to Gaza, Mr. Peri was able to save his wife’s life.
