While campaigning for Cohen’s release last year, Abud told the Guardian: “Hamas threw nine grenades into our shelter and I heard Eliya screaming and he told me that he was hurt and after two minutes I felt his hands slipping away as they pulled him away.”.
Eliya Cohen spent more than 500 days in captivity fearing Ziv Abud had died in Hamas attacks in 2023.
Eliya Cohen had spent more than 500 days in captivity fearing his bride-to-be, Ziv Abud, was dead.
An Israeli hostage only discovered his fiancee had survived the 7 October attacks after his release on Saturday, Israeli media has reported.
When she was rescued, she found that Cohen was missing and that her nephew and his partner had been shot dead next to her in the shelter, which is now referred to as the “death bunker” in Israel.
