After she was released from captivity in Gaza with her two daughters - while her husband David remained in captivity, Sharon Aloni Konio painfully reveals the conditions in which she and her daughters were held captive, and said that other captives gave up their food for her daughters.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Sharon shared her fear of her husband's fate: "Every day is like Russian roulette. We didn't know if they would kill us just because they wanted to or just because they had their backs against the wall. I'm terrified of the thought of receiving news that David is no longer alive."
She said about the conditions in captivity: "We were held 12 people together. All the abductees gave up food for my daughters. We didn't know if there would be bread in the evening, so in the morning we saved some for the evening. Everything is very calculated, a quarter of a pita, half a pita to keep for the next morning."
On the thoughts that go through the mind in captivity: "Every day there is crying, frustration and anxiety. How long will we be here? Have we been forgotten? Have we been abandoned? We are not just names on a poster. We are human beings, flesh and blood. My daughters' father is there, and many more fathers, children, mothers, brothers, sisters. Every minute is critical. The conditions there are not good and the days last forever."
She also said that "sometimes, when there was a power outage, the terrorists let us open the door or remove the curtain and then we would whisper. How are you supposed to make a 3-year-old child just whisper for 12 hours?"
Sharon said that three days before the release, she and her daughters were separated from the father of the family, David: "My daughters are torn apart, I am torn apart without my other half. Every day the girls ask where Daddy is."
