NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A group of area residents who have been gathering in Newton every weekend since hundreds of people were taken hostage by Hamas were joined Sunday by a cousin of one of the people who is missing in Gaza.
The Run For Their Lives group has been meeting in Newton Centre since Oct. 7 in the hopes of keeping them in the forefront of people’s minds as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.
“It’s been torturous,” Tamar Davis-Galpar said of her family’s experience waiting for the release of 22-year-old Omer Neutra, especially for his parents.
“They’re living a particular kind of hell that I cannot even imagine,” she said. “He is such a leader, he was head of his basketball, soccer, volleyball teams in high school … He decided to join the Israel Defense Forces and that’s what he was doing when he was taken. He was a tank commander.”
It has been 388 days since anyone has heard from Omer.
“I am hopeful but I am very, very scared, it’s very precarious, he is in grave danger,” Davis-Galpar said.
One hundred and one hostages remain missing in Gaza.
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