Wife described hostage ordeal while husband is still held by Hamas

Adrienne "Aviva" Siegel ws released after more than a month in Gaza. Her husband, a Chapel Hill native remains in captivity.
Posted 12/1/2023, 11:12:20 PM Updated 12/2/2023, 1:59:12 PM

RECOGNIZE THE MAN IN THOSE

PHOTOS, PLEASE CALL CRIME

STOPPERS. NOW TO THE LATEST ON

THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR THIS

MORNING. FIGHTING RESUMED JUST

MOMENTS AFTER THE SEVEN-DAY

TRUCE EXPIRED. THAT CEASE-FIRE

RESULTED IN THE RELEASE OF MORE

THAN 100 PEOPLE TAKEN HOSTAGE

BY HAMAS AND 240 PALESTINIAN

PRISONERS, MANY OF WHOM WERE

CHILDREN THAT WERE SITTING IN

ISRAELI JAILS, A LEADER IN THE

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SAID

ISRAEL AND HAMAS CONTINUE TO

DISCUSS THE HOSTAGES

INDIRECTLY. SECRETARY OF STATE

ANTONY BLINKEN SPOKE THIS

MORNING SAYING IT'S IMPORTANT

TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE

CEASE-FIRE ENDED THE WAY IT

DID.

>> THE CAUSE OF THE MOMS.

MOSS RENEE DOCUMENTS AND MADE

IT BACK EVEN BEFORE THE MOST

THEY COME IN AND FEROCIOUS

TERRORIST ATTACK IN JERUSALEM,

KILLING 3 PEOPLE, WOUNDING

OTHERS, INCLUDING AMERICANS

IT BEGAN FIRING ROCKETS FOR

THE

AND THEN.

>> AT THIS TIME, NO INFORMATION

HAS BEEN RELEASED ABOUT THE

AMERICANS INJURED IN THAT

ATTACK. MEANWHILE, A MAN WHO

GREW UP IN CHAPEL HILL IS AMONG

THOSE STILL BEING HELD HOSTAGE

IN GAZA. WRAL'S. CHRIS, I'M

GOING HERE IN STUDIO WITH NEW

INFORMATION THIS HOUR ABOUT

WHAT HAPPENED THE MORNING.

KEITH SIEGEL AND HIS WIFE WERE

KIDNAPPED, CHRIS. WELL, YOU

KNOW, THIS IS A VIVA AND KEITH

SIEGEL AND WE HAVE BEEN

FOLLOWING THIS STORY SINCE THE

WAR STARTED. KEITH HER UP IN

CHAPEL HILL AND THEN MOVED TO

ISRAEL AND MET HIS WIFE OF EVA.

SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST

HOSTAGES HAMAS RELEASED FOR THE

FIRST TIME WE'RE HEARING WHAT

HAPPENED WITH HAMAS SHOWED UP

AT THEIR HOME ON OCTOBER, 7TH

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE KATHY

MANNING FROM NORTH CAROLINA

SHARED SOME DETAILS ON THE

HOUSE FLOOR. ON THE MORNING OF

OCTOBER. 7TH, KEITH AND OF EVA.

WE'RE HAVING A QUIET DAY AT

HOME WHEN THEY WERE BRUTALLY

ATTACKED AND ABDUCTED BY HAMAS

TERRORISTS WHO DROVE THEM INTO

IN THEIR OWN CAR.

>> AFTER 51 DAYS OF GRUELING

IN CAPTIVITY OF THE VOTE WAS

FINALLY RELEASED EARLIER THIS

WEEK AS PART OF THE TEMPORARY

CEASEFIRE.

>> MANNING SAID THEY WERE

DRIVEN TO AGAIN, YOU JUST HEARD

THERE IN THEIR OWN CAR AND

KEITH SIEGEL HAS NOT BEEN

RELEASED BY HAMAS, CNN IS

REPORTING 3 OF THE HOSTAGES

STILL BEING HELD BY HAMAS WERE

KILLED. AN 85 YEAR-OLD MAN, A

MOTHER OF 4 CHILDREN AND FATHER

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