Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has described the conditions in which he was held by Hamas in Gaza, including torture and starvation that caused him to lose 40% of his body weight until he was released earlier this month.
Sharabi, 52, only learned upon arriving in Israel that his wife, Lianne, and his two daughters, Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, were murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023, during their terror attack on the community of Kibbutz Be’eri.
He looked so emaciated upon his release that even President Donald Trump expressed shock from afar, saying that the Israeli hostages looked “like Holocaust survivors.” And indeed, Sharabi’s account reinforces that parallel.
The Times of Israel reported:
Sharabi, who lost over 30 kilograms (66 pounds) in captivity — some 40% of his body weight — and weighed just 44 kg (97 lbs) upon his release, said terrorists held the four hostages in iron chains and sometimes beat or humiliated them, and that they subsisted for months on a single plate of pasta each day.
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He said the hunger pains were unbearable and that getting his captors to give them a dried-out date or a quarter of a piece of bread felt like a…
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