It was January 26, 2026. My husband came home from work, walked up to me and gently removed the yellow ribbon pin that I had been wearing since Hamas took hostages into Gaza on October 7, 2023.

My eyes swelled, tears rolled down my checks. I knew what his gesture meant: The body of remaining hostage Ran Gvili had been found. Dressed in his police uniform, he had been buried in a Gaza cemetery. He would now be returned to his family in Israel for proper burial.

I had been wearing that yellow ribbon pin, along with a dog tag that read, “Bring Them Home Now” since shortly after the Hamas invasion – symbols that the Jewish community distributed here and in Israel to bring attention to the hostages’ plight.

My husband then said, “You can also remove the yellow polish from your nails now.”

In March 2024, my women’s volunteer organization, Hadassah, started a Yellow Nail Campaign as a call to action to #EndTheSilence about the sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 massacre and while the victims were captive in Gaza.

“On October 7, women were raped, sometimes so violently that their legs and pelvic bones were broken,” says one woman in a short selfie video shared with her social media networks. “Women were shot in their vaginas and breasts,” says another. “Girls were found dead, stripped naked, genitals mutilated and covered with blood and semen,” says another.

Together, these videos — along with video testimonials by........

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