The father of an Israeli hostage taken by Hamas is blaming former first lady Michelle Obama for allegedly being silent on the matter.
Nineteen-year-old Israel Defense Force soldier Naama Levy was taken from the Oz army base by Hamas during its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, where more than 240 hostages were taken and at least 1,200 were killed in their homes in several small towns, kibbutzim and at the SuperNova Music Festival in the Negev Desert.
According to The New York Post, Levy’s father, 52-year-old Yony Levy, is blaming Obama for not speaking out for the return of the female hostages taken. Obama is a founder of The Girls Opportunity Alliance — a group committed to empowering adolescent girls worldwide through education — and recently traveled to Malawi and southern Africa with Amal Clooney and Melinda Gates to work on ending child marriage globally.
Obama also led the campaign “BringBackOurGirls” after at least 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in 2014. Levy says his daughter idolizes Obama, but he is “disappointed” and questioned why the “Becoming” author and others have “stayed silent.”
“What I want to know, why has she, and all these other famous women Naama looked up to, and all of the global human rights organizations she believed in, stayed silent about what has happened to my Naama and all the other girls who have still held hostage? It is like they have disappeared,” said Levy. “Their silence shouts loudly. Naama believed in the power of women helping each other. She believed in the power of women. I am disappointed for her.”
Naama Levy volunteered for a global peace organization that brought Arab, Jewish and American people together while also volunteering at a kindergarten in Israel that helped Ethiopian immigrants, her father says. Disturbing video of a bloody Levy wearing pajamas while being violently taken hostage circulated on social…
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