New disturbing testimonies are revealing that Israeli hostages brutally taken during Hamas’ massacre on Oct 7. are being tortured both physically and psychologically.
Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy returned to Israel on Saturaday dangerously emaciated after 491 days in Hamas captivity. Guards would reportedly eat in front of their starving prisoners, sometimes forcing them to choose which among them would receive food. When sustenance came, it was often just a single rotten pita bread to share among multiple hostages.
Stay informed with JBN email alerts! Get the latest updates on breaking stories, global events, and community news directly in your inbox.Sigi Cohen learned that her son Eliya, still held in Gaza, was imprisoned in the same tunnel as the three released men. Returning hostages have told her that he remains chained, with an untreated bullet wound in his leg from the October 7 attack, and has been subjected to burning, hanging by his feet, and systematic starvation.
“I’m unwilling to sacrifice my child,” Cohen tells Israel Hayom.
Similar accounts emerged about other Oct. 7 hostages.
Idit Ohel revealed that her son Alon, who just marked his 24th birthday in captivity, remains bound and untreated for shrapnel wounds that have partially blinded one eye.
“We’ve been learning more and more details since Saturday and can no longer remain silent,” she told Army Radio,. “The prime minister can’t say he didn’t know. Every day there is hell.”
Seventy-three Oct. 7 hostages remain in Gaza, including at least 34 confirmed dead. The current ceasefire deal divides releases into phases with humanitarian cases such as women, children, and civilian men over 50 or the sick going first.
Younger men like Alon Ohel (right) and Nimrod Cohen are slated only for the second phase, a detail that prompted Sigi Cohen to compare the distinction to Holocaust-era “selection” between prisoners.”
After President Donald Trump saw the emaciated hostages on Saturday he could draw only one parallel.
“They looked like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “They were emaciated and I don’t know how much longer we can take that.”
“They are in really bad shape, they have been treated brutally, horribly. Even the ones that came out earlier, they were in a little bit better shape, but mentally they were treated so badly. Who could take that?” he continued. “You know, at some point, we’re gonna lose our patience.”
End it now.
This must not be allowed to continue. We can’t negotiate with terrorists. To negotiate with them, gives terrorists some form of credibility in their own tiny minds. Stop this now. With full force get the hostages back, flattered Aza. Only the mindless lefties will care however even in the future they’ll realise Israel has saved them. We cannot have a repeat of October 7th. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Could Trump please lose patience now? Please?
Israel could (and probably should) totally decimate Gaza. Sadly, that would probably mean all hostages would be killed. The IDF did try to go in and rescue 3 hostages which were quickly murdered by their animal captors. So I don’t see a good option.