“Continuing warfare – the very warfare itself puts them at risk,” Dekel-Chen said, adding that this is both “from direct fire and the threat of Israeli encroachment on the places where the hostages are being held, which would lead, and has led, to hostages being executed.” Regarding ...
Terrorists told hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen of his daughter's birth while he was in captivity, gave him earrings to give his wife as a gift; Sasha Troufanov was informed in captivity of his father Vitaly's death, and burst into tears....
The baby born two months after the massacre was named Shachar, Hebrew for the first light that comes after darkness. Professor Jonatan Dekel-Chen, the father of Sagui, noted in an opinion piece published in the Times on Thursday that Sagui was living without the knowledge that his children a...