Freed Israeli hostages tell families of beatings and death threats.

According to the relatives of Israeli women and children who have returned from being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, they have reported being beaten and threatened with death, being transported from place to place, and being made to whisper even though they had very little to do during the weeks that they were held captive.

In a society that is still suffering from the trauma of their kidnapping during a Hamas assault on October 7, in which Israel claims 1,200 people were killed, the majority of those who were released following a six-day truce have been whisked to hospitals out of sight.

According to Danny Brom, director of METIV: The Israel Psychotrauma Center, some individuals will require medical care, while others will not. Many people would be required to communicate, and “the primary problem that needs to be restored is a sense of control,” he stated.

“People coming through horrific things are not sick,” said Brom. “They need to cope with it; they need to get space, time, and a warm environment in order to do that, but not necessarily in a medical setting.”

The media has not been allowed to interview the liberated captives since the most recent series of releases began on Friday. In exchange, Israel released several Palestinians who had been held in prison.

Without any independent verification, their stories have been disseminated via the process of family members. They give a clue to the experience that they went through. Israel claims that it captured 240 prisoners on October 77; nevertheless, the majority of those hostages are still being held captive.

Following the Hamas rampage, Deborah Cohen told BFM TV in France that she had been informed that her nephew Eitan Yahalomi, who is 12 years old, along with other individuals, were assaulted by Gazan people upon their arrival in the enclave. She stated that his kidnappers forced him to see images of the bloodshed associated with Hamas.

Every time a youngster screamed there, they threatened them with a weapon in an attempt to get them to be quiet before they continued crying. Upon their arrival in Gaza, every single citizen and every single person began attacking them simultaneously. A youngster who is twelve years old is the subject of our discussion,” she stated.

Hamas portrays a humane handling of hostages and claims that it has treated the captives by Islamic teachings to preserve their lives and ensure their well-being.

A military action that was conducted in response to the attack on October 77 has resulted in the deaths of more than 15,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities in Gaza, which Hamas administers. However, the Palestinian militant organization claims that air strikes killed several hostages during the fight.

WHISPERS ARE USED FOR SPEAKING
Because the children only communicated in whispers, it was difficult for the families of the two girls who were detained together to hear their children when they returned home.

I had to bring my ear near her lips to hear what she said. While she was being held captive, she was instructed to remain silent. According to Thomas Hand, the father of Emily Hand, who is nine years old, who spoke to CNN, “You can see the terror in her eyes.”

Narkis, Hand’s ex-wife, who had assisted in the care of Emily, had been murdeOctober 7ber 7th; she was informed upon her return.

She couldn’t stop crying the night before, and her cheeks turned red as a result. Her lack of desire for solace indicates that she has lost the ability to console herself. He reported that she hid herself under the blankets, covered herself, and sobbed silently there.

According to Yair Rotem, who also stated she was now whispering, Emily Hand held his thirteen-year-old niece, Hila Rotem Shoshani. She described how she had hugged her mother, Raaya, who was still in Gaza at the time, and how she had shed tears when the girls were taken away from her before they were returned to Israel.

Merav Mor Raviv stated that the individuals who kidnapped her cousin Keren Munder, Keren’s nine-year-old son Ohad, and Keren’s mother Ruth spoke Hebrew and would occasionally touch their throats with their fingers as if to threaten them with death if they did not comply with their demands.

She told Channel 12 in Israel that they were relocated from one location to another and transferred both beneath and above ground. There were times when food was short, and they ate only rice and pita bread for several days, which caused them to lose weight.

Hostages were refused medical attention, which led to significant health issues, according to officials at Israeli hospitals. Many of the hostages suffered from chronic ailments, and their nutritional status was poor.

Elma Avraham, who was 84 years old and released from the hospital on Sunday, was said to be in a “fight for her life,” according to its personnel.

“They held her in terrible conditions,” Tali Amano, the daughter, claimed. “My mother arrived hours before we would have lost her.”

Conclusions OF BEING JOINED TOGETHER
She faced Hamas chairman Yahya Sinwar when she was in custody and questioned him about how he was not sorry for having behaved brutally against peace advocates like herself, according to Yocheved Lifshitz, who was 85 years old at the time of her arrest and released two weeks later.

He did not answer it. In an interview with the Hebrew-language publication Davar on Tuesday evening, she said he did not speak.

Ahal Besorai reported that his niece and nephew, Alma and Noam Or, who are 13 and 16 years old, respectively, and a woman in their room, had shared a journal. However, the children were stopped from removing the diary when their captors took the two of them.

He stated this to CNN. The militants “handcuffed them, blindfolded them, and took them to the car that took them to the place where they were being handed over to the Red Cross.” The youngsters believed they were being taken to the restroom, but instead, they were driven elsewhere.

“They tried to hide it from the lady who stayed behind, all on her own,” according to Besorai.

While being released with her daughter Emilia, an Israeli woman named Daniel Aloni penned a letter of gratitude to the armed al-Qassam Brigades of Hamavi. The news of their tale quickly spread throughout the Arabic media.

In his letter, Daniel expressed his gratitude to them for providing Emilia with sweets and fruit and treating her daughter like a queen.

“I will forever be thankful that she doesn’t leave here with trauma,” according to her. “If only in this world we could truly be good friends.”

For comment on the letter that was written while Aloni was being held captive, Reuters was unable to get in touch with either her or her family.