The Girls I Met in the Tunnels
Agam Goldstein-Almog (left) hugs a community member on December 10, 2023, in Shefayim, Israel, 14 days after she was released by Hamas. (Photo by Amir Levy via Getty Images)
Seventeen-year-old Agam Goldstein-Almog saw Hamas murder her father and sister before her eyes. Then she was taken to Gaza.
I was in a dark and damp tunnel deep underground when, in hushed voices, I heard the stories from the young women. Not stories so much as bits and pieces of living nightmares.
I was with my mother, my protector, who did everything she could to keep me alive while we were in Hamas’s captivity. Together with my two young brothers, aged nine and eleven, the…
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