Hahina Tamir Nimrodi’s mother says his fate is unknown because she is waiting for the Trump peace plan

The mother of an Israeli man, who was taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, says that she still does not know whether her son has died or alive, but he has “real hope” that the American peace plan Donald Trump will bring the return of all the hostages held in Gaza.

Hirut Nimrodi BBC News told her that she was “fearing the worst” for her son Tamir, a soldier who was not dead, but she was clinging to the hope that he was still suspended “two years after his kidnapping.

She said he was the only Israeli hostage that her family had not been told if she was alive or dead.

Trump’s peace plan has gained momentum, as indirect talks are expected to continue on Tuesday between Hamas and Israel to end the war and return the hostages.

“They were trying to create an agreement for a while, but this did not take off. This time she felt different,” said Ms. Nimrodi. “There is real hope that this is one, this is the last deal.”

She said that it is especially important that all hostages – living and dead – be released in the first stage of the plan.

“This is huge, this is a blessing for us,” she said.

“It is necessary to release the hostages – those who are still alive, and even those that passed.

Tamir is one of 47 hostages were kidnapped on October 7 Those who stay in Gaza – 20 of whom are believed to be alive.

The last time she saw her son in a video of his kidnapping on social media on October 7, 2023.

“My younger daughter – she was fourteen years old – was screaming that she saw that her brother was kidnapped on Instagram.”

“I saw Tamir wearing his pajamas. He was barefoot. He had no glasses. He could hardly see without them. He was terrified.”

Since she saw her son – an educational officer in the Israeli army, who was 18 years old at the time – was forced into a pocket and expelled him away, “fading in Gaza”, had not received any signs of life.

“He is the only Israeli who has no indication of what happened or exactly,” she said.

The fate of Nepalese hostages, Bebin Joshi, is also unknown.

Like other families that BBC spoke to their relatives, they were killed or kidnapped on that day, Ms. Nimrodi said that life had been frozen for two years.

People ask me: “Two years have passed, how to hold? And I say, “It does not seem to be one day.

That day was two years ago the most bloody in the history of Israel, when about 1,200 people were killed by Hamas armed men and other groups, and 251 other people have been hostage, most of them from southern societies and the music festival.

The attacks sparked a war in which more than 67,000 people were killed in Gaza by Israeli military action, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region. Almost all the population and many of its infrastructure have been displaced.

Mrs. Nimrodi said that she was at her home near Tel Aviv when she received a message from Tamir early on October 7, 2023 from his post on the northern side of the Gaza border.

“There are missiles and they are not suspended.”

Tamir told her that he would soon return to the family home, because he is usually during these moments because of his non -dead role.

“I told him to take care of himself and send me whenever he could and said he would try. These were the last words between us. It was 06:49 in the morning, and I discovered later 20 minutes after our last message,” she said.

She was pressing the return of her son, including in gatherings with other hostages.

But she also said there are days “you cannot get out of the bed.”

“I am trying to listen to my body – what can I do? How strong is I?”

the A momentum behind the peace plan She brought some hope to the remaining hostages whose loved ones can return soon to the home.

Mrs. Nimrodi joined tens of thousands of people – including the families of the hostages, and the former hostages themselves – who gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to call for the implementation of the deal.

She was wearing a shirt with her son’s image on the front, smiling with glasses.

She said, “I believe in this deal, and I think Trump will not let this slip,” she called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “do the right thing – return the hostages to the house and bring peace to this area.”

She said that when she tried to sleep that night, she would meet the “terrified appearance” in the eyes of her son during his kidnapping, who plays in her head every day.

“Hope for two years – it’s very stressful.”