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Hostages Faced Severe Torture in Hamas Captivity
(Ha'aretz) Hostages Ohad Ben-Ami, Or Levy, and Eli Sharabi, who were released from Gaza on Saturday, endured severe torture under Hamas captivity, Israel's Channel 11 reported. Their captors interrogated them using brutal physical abuse. They were choked, bound, gagged with cloth to the point of suffocation, hung upside down, and burned with a hot object. They were deliberately starved, receiving only a rotten pita every few days, which they had to share with other hostages. One of the freed hostages revealed he had been chained for 15 months. "I was shackled inside a dark tunnel, with no air or light. I couldn't walk or stand, and only before my release did my captors remove the chains, forcing me to learn to walk again," his family told Channel 12. At times the captors ate in front of the hostages and denied them food, and sometimes forced the hostages to choose who would eat and who wouldn't. The hostages were only able to bathe once every few months and remained barefoot throughout their captivity.