A 25-year-old Israeli Russian with dual citizenship lived from ruins to Hamas horror
Team News Riveting
Jerusalem, November 28
It was no less than a movie script; Israeli hostage Ron Krivoi survived the bombing of the building he was staying, escaped from the captors, recaptured and finally freed.
The 25-year-old Israeli Russian with dual citizenship was released by Hamas on Sunday evening following the Russian government’s intervention. His survival and safe return were literally a miracle. Krivoi escaped his captors by extricating himself from the building where he was being held after it was bombed and collapsed on top of him.
Fleeing the rubble of the destroyed Gazan building, Krivoi attempted to escape the Gaza Strip on his own, managing to stay hidden for four days straight before being recaptured. He was working as a sound engineer at the Re’im music festival when he was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7.
His aunt Magid said he was taken by the terrorists and kept in a residential building in the Gaza Strip. “Due to the bombings, the building collapsed and he managed to escape the rubble and break free,” she said, adding that Gazan civilians eventually did locate Krivoi – but brought him back into captivity at the hands of Hamas.
“He tried getting to the border. But he didn’t have the capacity to understand where he was or where he needed to go, so he couldn’t navigate through the open field. He was all alone,” she said.
Krivoi has sustained injuries and is under medical observation. His condition is now reported to be stable.
