Some of the hostages were held in sweltering tunnels deep beneath the Gaza Strip, while others were squeezed into tight quarters with strangers or confined in isolation. There were children forced to appear in hostage videos, and others forced to watch gruesome footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist...
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An aunt of Avigail Idan ... said her niece shared one piece of pita bread per day with four other captives and did not have a shower or bath during her 50 days in captivity.
According to the aunt, Tal Idan, the
five hostages were kept in aboveground apartments, changing locations at least once. They were given a piece of pita with za’atar, a Middle Eastern spice mix, each day to share.
While Avigail was in captivity, her hair was shorn because she had developed a significant case of lice, Idan said. “She was covered in it. It took quite an effort to help her get rid of some of it the first night.”
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Many of the family members interviewed, particularly the relatives of children whose parents or siblings remain in captivity,
were reluctant to share the most incriminating details of their captivity lest the militants retaliate against the hostages still in their custody.
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The aunt, Devorah Cohen, said that when Eitan [Yahalomi] had arrived in Gaza, he was set upon by a mob.
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When he arrived in Gaza, civilians hit him,” she told BFM TV, adding that the boy and other kidnapped children were forced to watch videos of the atrocities committed Oct. 7. When he and others cried, she said, their captors threatened to shoot them.
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