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Former Israeli hostage Alon Ohel has shared a harrowing account of his two years in Hamas captivity, detailing torture, sexual harassment, starvation, and psychological abuse
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Describing his guards as abusive and erratic, the 23-year-old detailed two incidents where one of them subjected him to sexual abuse in an interview with Channel 12 News Israel
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Avinatan Or describes his captivity and how he had at one point attempted to escape, digging himself out of the tunnel and marking a sandbag with the word 'hostage,' until his captors found out
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After his moving speech at the Hostages Square on Saturday, 23-year-old Guy Gilboa Dalal speaks out for the first time on his 738 days in captivity
Speaking for the 1st time since his release, he said 'My heart is racing. I can't believe I'm in a place I once saw on TV from inside Gaza, and said that it's my dream to get there — and now I’m here'
"It's something even the Nazis didn't do. During Hitler's time, they wouldn't have done things like this." President Herzog reacted to the testimony: 'The world must not turn away from the truth'
"While I am free, many others are still captive. Their nightmare continues. Their families are still waiting. We cannot forget them. We cannot stop until they are all home."
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'They threatened to kill me several times, pressed a gun against my head,' Siegel recalled, urging a ceasefire and hostage release be secured as soon as possible
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Report seeks to be used as 'central tool for prosecutorial authorities in Israel in evaluating the case files,' as well as pushing the UN to list Hamas as perpetrator of sexual violence
'Sexual violence continued in captivity, with many returnees reporting forced nudity, physical and verbal sexual harassment, sexual assaults and threats of forced marriage'
The celebrity visited the Nova compound, the Be'eri kibbutz and the memorial of burnt vehicles in Tkuma, accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel.
The former hostage recounted having asked one of his jailers what he would do if he discovered his brother was homosexual – His response: 'I would kill him'
The first hostage freed revealed she had been harassed by one of her guards in Gaza after she was abducted on October 7
'Sinwar asked me what he could do for me,' Bibas recollected, 'I told him I wanted to stay with David, my best friend. He promised it would be done'
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Shoham spoke about the urgency to release the hostages, specifically cellmates Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal – 'I really fear that if they won’t be released soon, they probably will die there'
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Thanks to the internet and the soldier’s initiative, the Danzig family was able to welcome Billy home the same day she was found
Survivors of captivity spoke to the "60 Minutes" TV program, with Yarden Bibas saying the terrorists told him he would get a new and better wife and kids after they were murdered
Kalderon, released last week after 484 days as a hostage, revealed new and particularly difficult details from his time in Gaza • 'Hamas is a brutal enemy who will not hesitate to harm the abductees'
Wrongly suspected of being a senior officer in the IDF, the Israeli woman reveals she underwent brutal interrogations before Albag's intervention
Her ordeal has led her to a bleak conclusion about global attitudes towards Israel and the Jewish people, saying she believes the majority of the world hates Jews
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In an exclusive interview, the media mogul talks about his efforts to break the industry's silence in the aftermath of the biggest attack on a live music event in history
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'This number, which was true two months ago, may have increased since' says Guy Ben Shimon, a survivor from the Nova Music Festival, during a parliamentary hearing in Israel
"When the rockets started flying, my daughter texted me 'go to the safe room.' We were too used to rockets to run for cover," she recalled
'To be a woman in captivity is to be in constant fear, but the men there also undergo abuse' says Sharon Aloni-Cunio, a mother who was abducted along with her family during the Hamas October 7 attack