In Israel, relatives are coming up with new ideas to remember the abductees. After ten months, they are beginning to feel that the world has become accustomed to Hamas holding Israelis captive in Gaza.
“Can you cry under these things?” asks the woman, pointing skeptically at a pair of VR glasses. Thick and with a rubber rim, the bulky device dangles in Leora Prinz’s hand. She is one of the volunteers at the so-called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, at a stand around which more and more people are crowding. The visitor continues talking. “I think I have to cry now, without putting myself in the same room as the hostages.” Leora Prinz pours water into a cup and hands it to the woman. “Then you’d better not look at that today. You need to be stable for that.” Prinz sends a little boy wearing a kippah away – “only from the age of 18.”
Source: Stern
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