Itzik Gvili, the father of the last fallen Israeli hostage still held in Gaza, told Kan News on Thursday morning that no one knows where his son is�not even the terror groups in Gaza�and expressed fear that his son won’t be returned to Israel.

His son, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, H’yd, a Yasam counterterrorism officer, was killed battling terrorists on October 7, and his body was abducted to Gaza. He was on medical leave at the time, awaiting surgery for a broken shoulder, but voluntarily joined the battle to save lives.

�We daven that he won’t be another Ron Arad or another Hadar Goldin and have to carry this around for many, many years,� Itzik said.

�We keep going because we have no choice. Hamas claims they’re searching, but we don’t see any progress. They’re toying with us�playing games and deceiving us.”

Gvili added that the Hostages and Missing Families Forum is about to shut down. �As I understand it, the Forum will close because there they don’t want to maintain the entire framework for just one hostage,� he said.

�A year ago they began writing a Sefer Torah for the Nova survivors, and I asked that Rani also be mentioned there. Two days after the Sefer Torah was completed, the deal was signed and all the living hostages returned. For me, until I receive Rani, dead or alive�he is alive. I have nothing else to hope for.�

�Rani is, after all, a gibor Yisrael (hero). He went out to save lives; he wasn’t abducted from Nova or from a house,� Itzik added.

�He left his home wounded and went to save an entire country. Just as Rani didn’t forget the country that day, I don’t want the country to forget him.�

The body of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak is also still being held in Gaza.

(YWN Israel Desk�Jerusalem)