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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-873424
Survivor Recalls the Brutal Reality of Hamas's Gaza Tunnel Captivity
(Jerusalem Post-Times of Israel) Former Gaza hostage Matan Zangauker, 25, freed after 738 days in captivity, gave his first full account of abduction from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 in an interview with N12 on Monday. He described being seized by armed terrorists who stormed his home. As he was driven into Gaza on a motorcycle, he was greeted by "children, women, old people, lined up with sticks, with rocks, with pipes, and they started to hit me, to beat me." He was held underground for most of his captivity, often denied food, and subjected to physical and psychological abuse. There were days the captors would say there wasn't any food, and give each of the hostages half a pita, "and then prepare themselves food - the smells of eggplant, tomato, they treated themselves." His captors said that "if the IDF tried to rescue us, they would just shoot us."