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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/middleeast/israel-hostages-conditions-recovery.html
Israeli Hostages Endured Untold Adversity in Gaza Captivity
(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - Eitan Horn, a freed hostage in his late 30s, lost about half his body weight and was forced to walk for about 12 hours through the tunnels beneath Gaza when his captors wanted to move him, his sister-in-law, Dalia Cusnir, said. Elkana Bohbot's wife said he had returned with severe stomach pain because his captors had tried to fatten him up before his release, after months of receiving hardly any food. The captives had been kept largely incommunicado with little food and sometimes shackled. In many cases, they were held in dank, dark tunnels deep under Gaza. "Every one of them has endured untold adversity and horrors," said Prof. Itai Pessach, vice president of Sheba Medical Center, near Tel Aviv, and founder of its hostage medical team. "They will probably need weeks, months and even years to heal."