A father shames Michelle Obama for silence over bloodied Hamas hostage, 19: ‘She’s disappeared’
TEL AVIV — Naama Levy wants to make the world a better place and idolizes Michelle Obama for speaking upಞ for women.
But now Naama, 19, is being held hostage by Hamas — and her father wants to know why the former first lady and other famous women have been silent about her and th🀅e other hostages’ plight.
Yony Levi, 52, told The Post th♑at his teenage daughter, whose shocking kidnapping was seen around the world as terrorists paraded her in blood-soaked pajamas, is passionate about helping others.
The 19-year-old was part of a global peace organ🤪ization bringing together Jews, Arabs and Americans and volunteered at a kindergarten helping new Israeli immigrants from Ethiopia.
“We talked about Michelle Obama often,” Yoni said.
“She believed her to be someone who not only cared about global women but also someone with a really good heart.”
As first lady, Obama led the “Bring Our Girls Home campaign,” calling for the return of hundreds ❀of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist terror group Bokꩵo Haram.
And last month she with Amal Cloone🐎y and Melindౠa French Gates, Bill Gates’ ex-wife, to call for an end to child marriage.
But Levi said📖: “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 are still held hostage?
“It is like they have disappeared. Their s⛦ilence shouts loudly.
“Naama believed in the power of women helping each other. She believed in the power of women. I am disappointed for her.”
Saturday marks 70 days since Naama and 250 others were abducted by Hamas and other terrorists and taken into Gaza.
Her father has not even been able to bring himself to watch the video of her abduction, released by Hamas on social media just hours after the attac𝐆ks began.
“I am trying to put a barrier up in my mind, my soul, because I know I need to protect myself but I have to be strong for her,” he said.
“We know🌼 the clock is ticking for the hostages, physically and mentally.🎃 We urgently need to bring them back.”
While some women and children were returned during the humanitꦅarian pause, Naama remains one of 19 women still held hostage along with 113 men.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said last week that Hamas was holdi⛎ng onto the remaining women because it does not want them to tell ♈the world what was done to them.
Levy said he tries hard not to think about that aspec𒐪t of his daughter’s captivity.
“I am trying not to imagine what she might be going through — when those thoughts come through, I try and push them away, block them,” he said.
“Because I am a father who cannot protect my little girl. I feel like I am not doing my job properly.”
Levy spoke to The Post at the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Persons Family Forum in Tel Aviv, after a private meeting where he learned some of the details about what the hostages who have been released have described of their ordeals.
To say he wꦓas devastated, shocked and overwhelmed would be an understatement; he was the picture🅘 of utter misery.
The only positive news that he has had is that she is still believed to be alive. He has no way of even letting her know just how much the family — Yoni, ex-wife Ayelet Levy Shachar and Naama’s older brother and two younger siblings — is doing for her.
But he said Naama loves the American pop star Pink, particularly her song “Cover Me in Sunshine.”
Having learned that at least some o🌺f the hostages were allowed to listen to a particular radio station, her family has asked that the song be played often for Naama.
“It may be that she has been underground for the last 70 days and we cannot contact her, but we can at least hope that she hears this song and it will give her a brief second of sunshine,” he said.
