Former hostages return to Entebbe, confronting memory, trauma and history
“To be abducted in Athens on an Air France plane makes sense,” Gonen said. “But to be abducted at home, in the State of Israel, it was too much.”
Assessment
A group of former hostages returns to Entebbe, where they were held decades ago, now carrying the layered weight of a more recent abduction on home soil. The contrast between past and present captivity underscores a shift in the perceived safety of Israel itself. The visit forces a reckoning with how trauma compounds across time, in the same place where a different kind of hijacking once unfolded.