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Testimonies of Hamas-Held Israeli Hostages
(Israel Hayom) Noam Barkan - As part of Israel's national documentation project of returnees and families of hostages for the State Archives, 25 released hostages and 21 family members of hostages have shared their stories of captivity and return to normalcy. Shlomi Ziv, 41, a security guard at the Nova festival, was in Hamas captivity for 246 days before being rescued by the IDF. Shlomi described the day of his rescue: "The homeowner came in and said in Arabic to the guards 'Captain so-and-so called.' I hear 'Captain' and I understand it's Israeli intelligence saying to leave the house - because they're going to bomb now. Within four minutes, there wasn't a single person in the neighborhood. You hear the women and children taking themselves and fleeing." "In the house too, except for one who stayed with us - all the captors evacuated and we were left there chained, hearing the planes in the sky, and the one guarding us standing with a knife in his hand."