Uncle of released Israeli teen hostages gives details about their time in captivity



Ahal Besorai’s niece and nephew were among the dozens of Israeli hostages released as part of a four-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. He said the first thing the teenagers learned when they got out of captivity was that their mother was murdered by Hamas militants.

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47 thoughts on “Uncle of released Israeli teen hostages gives details about their time in captivity”

  1. By the time nine-year-old Emily Hand was released, she thought she had been in Hamas captivity for a year.

    She told her father that they weren’t allowed to speak out loud, and she learned how to say, “be quiet” in Arabic.

    Twelve-year-old Eitan Yahalomi said that when the kids cried, Hamas threatened them with weapons. So they learned to hold it all in.

    The hostages were held deep in underground tunnels, sometimes alone, sometimes together. They were beaten with sticks, only given plastic chairs to sleep on, not allowed to shower, and had to wait hours to use the bathroom.

    The hostages who came home were found to be suffering from severe malnutrition, and lost 5-10 kilo of weight on average. One lost 20 kilo, which is 44 lbs. They explained that they were only given one meal each day, consisting of just rice, sometimes bread, sometimes nothing. When they were held together, the men would give their portions to the elderly and children, to keep them alive.

    Eitan, the sensitive little boy who was captured alone, told his parents that the terrorists forced him to watch an hour of horror footage from the October 7th massacre. The same footage that Israel showed in closed screenings to select journalists and politicians, many of whom ran out midway through, in tears.

    When Eitan was brought into Gaza, on the back of a Hamas motorcycle, he said that civilians came out to see and they all happily beat him. Civilians. Of all ages.

    The civilians of Gaza had the chance to save Ron Krivolli, but instead, they turned him in to Hamas. Ron was being held alone in an apartment building, and when it was bombed by the IDF, he took the chance to escape. He wandered around for four days trying to find his way to Israel. But ordinary Gaza people found him, and immediately brought him to Hamas.

    Alma Avraham, the 84-year-old hostage who is fighting for her life in the ICU now, desperately needed medication. Her family begged the Red Crescent to bring it to her, but they refused. Yaffa Adar, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was amongst the first to be released said she had begged Hamas to release Alma and other elderly women before her, who are barely still alive. Hamas so far only released hostages who have family members still in their cruel hands.

    To top it all off, right before they were released, the hostages were given their first shower and change of clothing in over 50 days. Then they were forced to smile and wave at the masked Hamas terrorists, for photos. A propaganda display that an international public that is happily eating up.

    The Gaza civilians didn’t get the memo though. They chased after the Red Crescent vans that escorted the hostages out of Gaza, jumped on the vehicles, and banged on the windows to terrify the children in one last display of barbaric cruelty.

    Is your blood boiling yet? Because mine is.

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  2. Watch the Palestinian side videos. All kids, broken hands and scars to faces, one boy who is 15 has gone grey due to the stress he's been under. We hear directly from them. Yet this side we hear from uncles and fathers of how terrible it all is, yet in the pictures there's no broken arms?! I'm not saying it's not traumatic for both sides, but we all need to see both sides to see who the real terrorists are

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  3. How many Gazans were interviewed on this channel. How many Palestinian prisoners were interviewed on this channel. Why dont you interview the uncle instead of hostages. Based on the release clips the hostages were even greeting and waving at the Hamas fighters. One hostage even thanked her captors in a letter written in hebrew. The two first hostages released a few weeks ago mentioned the humanity of the Hamas fighters and how good they were treated. None of this made the western mainstream media. Now compare this to the torturing and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and decide for yourself who the real terrorists are.

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  4. This is sad!!! 95% of this guy claims are just lies!!! Hamas didn’t attack their community!! They are illegal settlers occupying someone else homes and land, do you expect the occupied (Palestinianspeople) to just sit back watch? It’s Israeli government fault for not warning their illegal occupiers about this illegal occupation!! Also, it’s been proven that come off, treated the hostages with humanity and respect!!! The point is no matter how bad hamas is, Israel is 1000 times worse!!!

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  5. There is no comperission between prisoner children and hostages children . Isrl army broke arms of 14 years old boy being released. How they have expectation for a long time getting tortured, waiting naked under the raining, forcing barking and swearword by themselves,leaving by hunger. All those are what we know other than things like I can't imagine 😢 just throwing the stone …both side are children never forget children are always innocent ❤ btw isrl army while 117 children realised it has taken 116 children captives to the prison in occupied West Bank 😢

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  6. They seem like leaving from relatives homes 🏡 giving water 💧 hand waving 👋 smiling 😃 children never lie ❤what do u have expectation? no medicine just bcs of they never have medicine, staying in tunnel just bcs of hms staying in tunnels for years where they hospitality, the ilision is broken 😉they never hurt them bcs of varanty to get back 😢 innocently prisoners children. what they eat they feed them , what is their life conditions they reflected and shared to the hostages 🎉

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  7. I hope the whole world would know that Israel is holding 10,000 Palestinian hostages in its prisons in brutal horrific situation since many years and no body spoke or showed sympathy. not to mention killing more than 14,000 Palestinians (two third are women and children) and wounding more than 30,000 since October 7th. really humanity in the west is selective, and double standard prevail.

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  8. It's Interesting that all the videos about the hostages release shows EXCATLY the opposite, while on the other hand check how they treat the Palestinians children & women released from their prisoners

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  9. Very little food and water because Israel has blocked food and water. Let’s face it, the Israeli hostages were treated well. The purpose of the hostages was so they could be swapped for innocent Palestinian women and children who weren’t treated as nicely, or rather they were tortured and abused.
    The innocent civilians who died was because Israel decided to bomb everyone.

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  10. The narrative doesn't hold straight for we've seen the very first hostage who clearly spoke about how hospitable were the Palestinians. This gentleman is not telling the truth as it pertains to the Palestinian side! As for the food, we all know that your government has been counting the number of calories to keep Palestinians malnourished!!! I was hoping to hear a courageous man tell the truth about how well they were treated.

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  11. The Jewish people are a people who Strive for life. If we regard poetry as the ultimate expression of culture and worldviews, we notice that a significant portion of the poems in the Hebrew language throughout the ages deals with peace between peoples and nations and the constant striving for peace.
    On the other hand, how many peace songs are there in the Arabic language and how many nationalist songs of fire and blood???

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  12. I've seen one report where Hamas has released letters written while in captivity to them, while in captivity so I'm sure it was all on their own volition, that they were thankful for the good treatment. The fact that these letters were written while they were being held captive is reminiscent of the Viet cong forcing prisoners to say the same. The women and children that were raped and killed during the terrorist attack, doesn't lead me to believe those letters are completely legit.

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