{"id":4930,"date":"2025-02-09T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/dad-i-came-back-alive-israeli-hostages-start-to-give-glimpses-of-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:25:53","slug":"dad-i-came-back-alive-israeli-hostages-start-to-give-glimpses-of-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/dad-i-came-back-alive-israeli-hostages-start-to-give-glimpses-of-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dad, I Came Back Alive!\u2019 Israeli Hostages Start to Give Glimpses of Ordeal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Doron Steinbrecher vowed that she would never wear pink again when she made her first public comments <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9tkTUHsJvcI\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a video<\/a> after being freed from more than 15 months in Hamas captivity in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A year ago, she had appeared in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hamas-publishes-new-propaganda-clip-showing-3-young-female-hostages-in-gaza\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a hostage video made by her captors<\/a> wearing a pale rose-colored sweatshirt. When the Palestinian militant group Hamas released her last month, she was dressed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tb3zfpY1J94\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a bright magenta<\/a> track suit and looked pale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sitting in front of a camera again took her back to the difficult moments when her captors filmed her in Gaza, Ms. Steinbrecher, 31, said in the video, looking composed and smiling at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis time, I\u2019m sitting comfortably on a couch with my family watching me in a warm and pleasant place,\u201d she said. Trying to convey that she had not been broken, she said it was important for her to show everyone that \u201cI\u2019m OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As families and sympathizers at home and abroad doggedly campaigned for the release of the Israeli hostages, most people knew them only as faces staring out from posters. Now, with 16 Israelis released since Jan. 19 under the cease-fire deal with Hamas, those haunting faces are coming to life in video clips, social media posts and statements from relatives that provide glimpses of the joy and relief of freedom as well as hints of the torment they have endured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The brief messages they have sent out have mostly been expressions of gratitude to all those who worked for their release and pleas not to give up until the last hostage is freed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The urgency of that message became even clearer on Saturday, when many Israelis were shocked to see the emaciated condition of the latest three hostages who were released: Eli Sharabi, 52; Or Levy, 34; and Ohad Ben-Ami, 56.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some relatives have said that the hostages released earlier were often deprived of food, suffered severe loss of weight and muscle mass, and rarely saw sunlight. Family members said some of the hostages had at least occasional access to radio or television and heard or saw their relatives campaigning for their release, which helped them survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Col. Avi Benov, a doctor and deputy chief of the Israeli military\u2019s medical corps, told reporters that several of the recently released female hostages had spent the last eight months underground <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/21\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-hamas-israel-tunnels-hostages.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">in Hamas tunnels<\/a> in Gaza. Some hostages who were released in November 2023 have described suffocating humidity in the tunnels that made it difficult to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Colonel Benov said the first seven women recently released were all were suffering from \u201cmild starvation,\u201d while some still had shrapnel in their bodies from injuries they sustained on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That was the day Hamas led an attack from Gaza on southern Israel that ended with about 1,200 dead and about 250 people taken back to Gaza as hostages. The attack ignited a 15-month war, with Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and devastating the territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Of the roughly 250 captives, scores were released during a weeklong truce later that year while some have been killed in captivity. More than 70 hostages have not yet been returned, including at least 35 who are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A total of 25 hostages are expected to be released, along with the bodies of eight others, during the initial six-week cease-fire that took effect last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They are being exchanged for about 1,500 Palestinian prisoners, some of them convicted of killing Israelis. Released Palestinians, many of whom had been held without charge, say they faced harsh conditions in Israeli jails and detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the Israeli hostages had been forced to appear in videos filmed by their captors in Gaza \u2014 a practice that rights groups <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/11\/10\/gaza-hostage-videos-outrage-personal-dignity\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">have denounced as<\/a> inhumane treatment that could amount to a war crime. Israeli officials have called these a form of psychological warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A few months ago, Hamas\u2019s military wing issued a statement claiming that a hostage had been killed and released blurry images apparently showing a body wrapped in a shroud. One close-up shot showed a tattoo identical to one belonging to Daniella Gilboa, one of a number of female <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israel-spotters-hostages.html?searchResultPosition=4\" title=\"\">lookout soldiers captured from a small military base<\/a> near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Ms. Gilboa, 20, was freed on Jan. 25. Days later, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/3856026044612244\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she was singing<\/a> at a party marking the discharge of the army lookouts from Beilinson Hospital near Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She reflected on her ordeal in a lengthy Instagram <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFkV-CRNYK6\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on Feb. 2. She said her faith and observance of Jewish rituals had gotten her through. She thanked her supporters for not believing the rumors that she had been killed in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Liri Albag, another one of the lookouts, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFpguitoIWg\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated her 20th birthday<\/a> while recovering at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Steinbrecher was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, a rural community near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the video she released, her appearance contrasted sharply with hostage videos made when she was pale, with blond hair pulled back in a braid. Her hair was now dark and neatly styled in a shoulder-length bob, and she dressed in black, wearing long necklaces, a dog tag and a yellow pin in solidarity with the hostages. She said she was no longer that person in the videos from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m Doron. I\u2019m 31. I\u2019m no longer in Hamas captivity, and I\u2019m home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The recently released hostages have remained largely protected from the glare of the news media and have not given any interviews so far. Medical and mental health professionals say that preserving their privacy is essential to the long healing process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Footage released by the military of the hostages\u2019 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/nhw5LFBMvzw\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">emotional reunions with close family members<\/a> have given a sense of the elation surrounding their return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDad, I came back alive!\u201d another freed hostage, Romi Gonen, 24, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zTkTrS7MK48\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shouted into a cellphone<\/a> after being reunited with her mother on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts say that the long captivity caused physical and psychological harm, and that full rehabilitation will take time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are walking a very slow path,\u201d said Prof. Noa Eliakim-Raz, the head of the returnees\u2019 ward at Beilinson Hospital. \u201cOf course, we see ups and downs. Every day is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the freed hostages returned with injuries from the Oct. 7 assault. Emily Damari, 28, lost two fingers after being shot in the hand and was also shot in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She is a fan of the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv, and at one of their matches on Monday, a video message from Ms. Damari was projected on a huge screen. She <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaccabiTLVFC\/status\/1886482183243632821\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thanked the players, the management and the supporters<\/a> for fighting for her freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Gonen is still suffering from an arm injury and will need complicated surgery, her mother has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gadi Moses, 80, an agronomist who was kidnapped from his home in Nir Oz, a village near the Gaza border, was released on Jan. 30, appearing gaunt. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w80ZXXjk5wk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Almost as soon as he returned to Israel<\/a>, he pledged to do all he could to rehabilitate his ravaged community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His niece, Efrat Machikawa, later told reporters that Mr. Moses had been kept above ground throughout his captivity but was frequently moved around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shut in rooms alone, she said, he exercised by counting steps and pacing up to six miles a day, kept his mind active with calculations and other techniques. And he remained positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When she first met him in the hospital, he reassured her, \u201cI\u2019m alive. I\u2019m normal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLoneliness becomes an enemy,\u201d Ms. Machikawa said. \u201cHe managed to create a routine that kept his sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-hostages-ordeal.html\">Source 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