“I hugged him and we cried with emotion and happiness,” said the granddaughter of one of the Argentines saved by Hamas.

The young Guefen Sigal Ilan is Israeli but like her entire family she also has Argentine citizenship. She guefen she is the granddaughter of Fernando Simón Marman, one of two Argentines rescued by Israeli forces from one of the Hamas hideouts early Monday morning. Norberto Louis Har, her other hostage is her mother’s boyfriend.

Guefen does not hide his joy in the telephone conversation he had with Clarín this Monday. But as when he met the head of the Argentine embassy in Tel Aviv, Francisco Tropepi, and the ambassador Eyal Sela, in Buenos Aires, Guefen believes that they will have peace when he manages to take the 134 hostages of the fundamentalist and terrorist group to recover the freedom.

Did you get to say goodbye to your uncle?

-Yes, Fernando. We’ll call him Nano

-What did you talk to him about? What did they say?

-I’m right with him, we’re with him now in the hospital. I went out alone to do this interview

-But what was the first thing they said to each other? What did they say?

-I hugged him and we cried with emotion, with happiness. I told him that I am very, very happy, that he is here, that he was saved, that he came home. I told him and Louis too.

– Are Fernando and Lous still together?

– If we were all together in the hospital, in Tel Aviv. When they rescue abducted people or when they release abducted people, they first take them to the hospital for check-ups and rehabilitation.

-How did you notice?

-They are thinner. And you can see that the skin is a different color. Because there was no daylight. Four months locked up is a long time.

Is this what struck you the most?

-What had the greatest impact is that they are well, that they walk, that they walk, that they speak well. Sure.

-Do you know what condition they were in? ¿Without sunlight for all that time, what did they say about their confinement?

-They didn’t say much about the conditions. I understood that they were in captivity, in inhumane conditions. That they couldn’t eat well, they couldn’t sleep, they couldn’t be free. They all turned out to be very, very complicated, very complicated.

-What is known about his imprisonment? When they took them, were they still in the second-floor apartment in Rafah from which they were rescued?

-Unfortunately we cannot tell many details of the military operation. We are still missing 134 abducted people who are waiting to be released. I asked the Israeli government to negotiate and the world to help us carry out that negotiation so that everyone is released.

But have they seen other hostages in captivity, Argentinians or not?

Unfortunately they did not see any more abducted people during their captivity. But in the beginning they were all together. They were with my aunt, my mother and my cousin. But when they were released, they separated from them and were alone together.

Guefen refers to the fact that both Fernando and Louis were held prisoner with their mother Clara Marman, their aunt Gabriela Leimberg and with Mía Leimberg, the young Argentine who, when the three were released, was surprised because she had been able to hide her dog Shih tzu.

What do you know about the liberation operation?

What I tell you is that I am very grateful to the soldiers, to the Israeli National Security Service, who did everything they could and in the best possible way to save them. I want to thank them with all my heart for what they did and also say that I am sad for the dead soldiers and the wounded ones (on the day of the operation). I just see the result and I’m very happy with it. Grateful.

And what did you hear Louis say?

The same thing Nano said, that they were in inhumane conditions. And now they’re very, very happy that we’re all together, that they’re free to do rehab. Now it’s still a little difficult. It is difficult because there are 134 missing people who need to be released and until their return the rehabilitation cannot be carried out in silence.