Tales and play-tents sustained Israeli mother and daughter in Gaza captivity

But they ended up dragged into Gaza after Alony persuaded her sister, with whom she was staying, that it was better to go out and risk being shot than to succumb to the smoke and flames. Interviewed on Israel's Channel 13 TV, Alony described the ordeal as a supreme test of parenting. Separated from her sister and nieces, she and Emelia were carted past jeering Palestinian mobs and into a Hamas tunnel that had iron-barred holding cells.