Ex-Hostage Says Liri Albag Saved Her Life
Stand for Israel | January 29, 2025
While Israel grieves for all that’s been lost or destroyed during this long and brutal war, there are moments of inspiration when we hear stories of extreme bravery – and this is one of them.
Amit Soussana, who was a hostage in Gaza and released in 2023, credits recently released Liri Albag with saving her life after Albag convinced Hamas guards that Soussana wasn’t in the IDF, reports The Times of Israel:
Speaking with Channel 12’s “Uvda” investigative program, Soussana, 40, said her captors bound her arms and legs together, beat her with a stick and threatened her with a sharp metal object, and demanded that she admit to being in the military, claiming they had learned from TV that she was.
She said the captors brought other hostages, including Albag, to ask her to come clean.
A guard pointed a gun and her head and told her, “You have 40 minutes to tell us the truth, or else I kill you,” she said.
She said Albag talked to the guard and managed to persuade the captors that Soussana wasn’t in the military.
“I told her when she came back: ‘I don’t know if they would have killed me or not; as far as I’m concerned, you saved my life,” Soussana recalled.