She told me that she had run out of milk but was afraid to go the doctors because she had already heard about the kidnappings, but she had no other option. When she went to the doctor, he told her: “Wow, you are really young. You will be able to give birth to many more children…”

She started to feel bad, to understand that something was really weird. And then the doctor told her that her daughter was very very sick and that she needed to be transferred immediately to a hospital.

“I know that I am primitive,” she later told me, “but I can feel if my daughter is sick or not, and she was totally healthy.”

The doctor put pressure on her and she gave her daughter. When she told me this, she started crying and saying, “it’s my fault, it’s my fault… how could I have given her…”

For a full year she searched her daughter throughout the whole country, but that time was the last time she ever saw her daughter.

Gil Damti