Wife of American Hamas hostage Keith Siegel pleads for holiday miracle: We need to get them back

Aviva Siegel, the wife of American hostage Kieth Siegel and a former hostage herself, is pleading with everyone and anyone involved in the hostage negotiations to get her husband, and the others, freed from Hamas captivity after they have spent more than 440 days in deplorable conditions. “Hamas released a video of Keith, and I just saw the picture,” Aviva told Fox News Digital in an emotional interview in reference to a video Hamas released in April.“He looks terrible.

His bones are out, and you can see that he’s lost a lot of weight.“He doesn’t look like himself.And I’m just so worried about him, because so [many] days and minutes have passed since that video that we received,” she said.

“I just don’t know what kind of Keith that we’re going to get back.”“I’m worried about all the hostages, because the conditions that they are in are the worst conditions that any human being could go through,” Aviva said. “I was there.I touched death.

I know what it feels being underneath the ground with no oxygen. “Keith and I were just left there.We were left there to die,” she added. Aviva and her husband of, at the time 42 years, were brutally abducted from their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by Hamas on Oct.

7, 2023, and held together for 51 days before she was released in the November 2023 hostage exchange after suffering from a stomach infection that left her incredibly ill. She has since tirelessly fought for Kieth’s release, meeting with top officials in the US and Israel, traveling to the United States nine times in the last year and becoming a prominent advocate for the hostages. “I just hope that he’s with other people from Israel, and if he has them, he’s going to be okay,” Aviva said.“He’s just the person that will make them feel that they’re together.

That’s what he did when I was there – he was 100% for me and the hostages that we were with.” “If you get kidnapped, get kidnapped with Keith, beca...