Brother of Hamas hostage makes emotional plea to Trump: 'Achieve the biggest deal'

While the satellite breathes easier pursuing the ceasefire with Iran, families similar excavation are inactive holding our enactment — due to the fact that my brother, and 49 different hostages, are inactive underground successful Gaza, waiting to travel home.

For astir 2 weeks, arsenic Iran escalated its attacks, our families lived done a dual nightmare. When Iran's missiles archetypal started falling, my woman was abroad. I was location unsocial with our 3 young children, racing to the weaponry shelter, trying to clasp it unneurotic portion sirens howled supra us. My woman fought to instrumentality to Israel — to a state nether occurrence — due to the fact that she couldn't carnivore the thought of america facing this alone. 

That's the benignant of fearfulness we've been surviving with.

ISRAELI HOSTAGE FAMILIES MAKE DESPERATE PLEA TO TRUMP AS 'TIME IS RUNNING OUT'

Moshe Or, left, with his member Avinatan, who is being held hostage by Hamas terrorists successful Gaza. (The Or family)

I held my children adjacent and did everything I could to comfortableness them. And still, done it all, my thoughts kept circling backmost to my younger member Avinatan. If we were terrified with walls astir us, adjacent to our loved ones, what is Avinatan feeling there, underground, successful the darkness, surrounded by terrorists? 

That thought ne'er leaves me.

This has been the world for truthful galore Israeli families — sheltering from bombs above, portion knowing our loved ones are inactive captive below. As the satellite shifts its attraction to the adjacent crisis, the hostages hazard being forgotten. But their suffering hasn't ended. Their clip is inactive frozen. And we are inactive warring to bring them home.

President Trump, you've shown the satellite what decisive enactment looks like. Your effect to Iran sent a wide message: America stands by its allies, stands for the information of the full world. Now, with a ceasefire successful place, we indispensable not discarded this model of opportunity. You've helped escaped hostages before. You've said you privation a woody that brings them each home. Now you tin execute the biggest woody of all.

President Donald Trump met with 7 hostages freed from Hamas captivity connected March 7, 2025. (Photo provided by Hostages Families Forum)

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Six 100 and twenty-eight days. That's however agelong my brother, Avinatan, has been held hostage by Hamas successful Gaza. Alive — but suffering. Denied sunlight, cleanable water, medicine and basal freedom. He is being utilized arsenic a bargaining spot successful a cruel game.

Oct. 7, 2023 was Simchat Torah — a vacation that's expected to observe joyousness and tradition. I had nary thought that my member was adjacent astatine the Nova euphony festival, 1 of the archetypal targets deed by Hamas. The archetypal motion that thing was incorrect came done societal media. Friends started looking for him online. Then the video surfaced — Avinatan, handcuffed, being dragged violently into Gaza, forcibly separated from his woman Noa Argamani. It inactive doesn't consciousness real. But each time since then, I've been forced to unrecorded it. Noa was rescued this June. Avinatan is inactive there.

For the archetypal 500 days, we had nary thought astir his fate. Just the sickening cognition that helium was apt suffering. Then, successful March, we yet received a motion of life. It was a enactment aft months of suffocation. But confirming he's live is not the goal. The extremity is to bring him location that way.

Moshe Or, left, is appealing to President Trump to assistance escaped his member Avinatan and the 49 different hostages held by Hamas terrorists successful Gaza. (The Or family)

Hostages who've returned picture horrifying conditions: underground tunnels successful full darkness, starvation truthful terrible their muscles broke down, and soundlessness truthful prolonged immoderate forgot however to speak. They look systematic cruelty and torture each day.

Avinatan is 32, my younger member — thoughtful and afloat of heart. He's an electrical technologist astatine Nvidia, a devoted uncle and 1 of 7 siblings successful our big, adjacent family. He ne'er misses a day and volition thrust crossed the state conscionable to amusement up. A passionate cook, helium prepares elaborate meals conscionable to spot others smile. Smart, funny, ever surrounded by friends — Avinatan is the psyche of our family. Our enslaved ne'er needed regular telephone calls oregon agelong conversations. We're the benignant of brothers who conscionable know. We grew up broadside by side, and adjacent arsenic we built our ain lives, we could inactive beryllium unneurotic astatine our mother's location connected a Friday day and speech and laughter similar nary clip had passed.

The past clip I saw Avinatan was astatine my youngest daughter's 3rd birthday. She's turning 5 soon. One of her older brothers precocious told america his biggest fearfulness is forgetting what Avinatan looks similar — forgetting the dependable of his voice. This is the puerility they've inherited. And now, connected apical of everything, they had to aftermath up to the terrifying dependable of sirens — running to shelters, asking questions nary kid should person to ask.

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We miss him successful each infinitesimal — during celebrations, successful sadness, and astir of all, successful mundane life. At Friday dinners erstwhile his seat stays empty, during household milestones that walk without him. The hardest portion is realizing however overmuch clip has passed, and still, he's determination — buried successful Hamas's tunnels, waiting for america to bring him home.

President Trump, you person the powerfulness to alteration this communicative — and implicit your mission. The twelve-day cognition successful Iran has ended. The United States stood with Israel. Now it’s clip to crook that occurrence into thing adjacent greater: a broad woody that brings each the hostages location and ends this war.

Israeli hostage families transportation the photos of their loved ones who are held hostage by Hamas successful Gaza arsenic they march to Jerusalem. (Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The ceasefire with Iran indispensable people the opening of a broader resolution. There are 50 hostages inactive held successful Gaza — immoderate confirmed alive, others known to person been murdered. Every 1 of them matters. Every 1 of them indispensable travel home.

We convey you, Mr. President, and the radical of the United States, for lasting with us. We inquire you present to assistance bring this combat to its conscionable conclusion.

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Avinatan is inactive alive. Still waiting. And we volition not halt — not until helium and each different hostage are home.

Moshe Or is the member of hostage Avinatan Or, who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists connected October 7, 2023.