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2025-02-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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‘I was starved and tortured’: Keith Siegel urges Trump to ensure all hostages freed
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(IsraelTimes] Dual national tells US president ‘you are the reason I am home alive’; released captive Or Levy visits Hostages Square, days after release from Hamas captivity: ‘Hope dies last’
Recently released hostage Keith Siegel issued a video statement on Friday thanking US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
for his administration’s work in securing his release as part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, and asked him to ensure that the agreement remains intact until all the remaining captives are freed.
"My name is Keith Siegel and I’m a 65-year-old American citizen. I love country music and I love pancakes on Saturday morning, but that was my previous life," he said in English in the video statement, with a yellow ribbon pinned to his sweatshirt.
"Since February 1, I am a newly released Hamas hostage. I’m a survivor. I was held for 484 days in unimaginable conditions. Every single day felt like it could be my last," Siegel said.
"President Trump, you are the reason I am home alive," he continued. "You are the reason I was reunited with my beloved wife, four children and five grandchildren."
Siegel said that while held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
he "lived in constant fear, fear for my life and my personal safety.
"I was starved and I was tortured, both physically and emotionally," he said.
Israeli-American citizen Keith Siegel, who was released from Hamas captivity two weeks ago after being held captive for 484 days, recorded a video message for President Trump:
Siegel said that when the fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified, his captors treated him even worse than they usually did.
"Terrorists kicked me, spat on me and held me with no water, no light, no air to breathe," he said.
Appealing to Trump, Siegel said that his "leadership, power and authority are necessary to enforce the ceasefire and put an end to the unnecessary daily dangers to the lives of innocent hostages and civilians."
"I trust in your strength and leadership Mr. President," he said. "The helpless hostages in the dark, cold tunnels in Gaza also trust you. Please bring them home."
Also on Friday, released hostage Or Levy visited Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, six days after he was freed from Hamas captivity. Levy said in a statement that he was visiting the focal point of the efforts to secure the release of those held in Gaza despite resistance from his family and doctors. Levy was released on Saturday along with Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami. The three men were frail and emaciated as a result of their ill-treatment.
"It’s been a week now, a week since I was reborn," said Levy. "I’m trying to process what happened during the 491 days I missed, trying to understand what transpired in our country during that time."
He said that during his captivity in Gaza, he didn’t know whether or not his wife Eynav was still alive. Eynav Levy was killed in the roadside shelter near the Nova rave, where the couple had fled during the rocket onslaught on the morning of October 7, 2023, while Or was taken captive.
"It was such devastating news I received when I returned, but I promised her every day while I was there that I would stay strong for her and for the greatest gift she gave me in life — Mogi," says Levy, referring to their three-year-old son, Almog, who was raised by grandparents and other family members while he was held in Gaza.
Of the activism at Hostages Square, Levy said it was important for him to "understand everything you’ve done and continue to do, to see the work that is far from taken for granted."
"I may be here, but I still have many brothers and sisters in the hell of Gaza, and their time is running out," he said.
"Alon and Eliya, I’m waiting for you," says Levy, referring to Alon Ohel and Eliya Cohen, who were held with him and fellow released hostage Eli Sharabi, whose wife and two daughters were killed on October 7. "Bring them all back! Now! Whatever it takes."
Released female hostages were treated like maids, male captives still held being abused
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 publishes new testimony from the female hostages released last month, along with another testimony from released hostages about the conditions under which remaining male captives are being held.
One of the female hostages was held in the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative and was tasked with taking care of his children.
Another female hostage was held with a family. The father was married to several women and was very violent toward the hostage, treating her like a maid. One of the man’s wives grew close to the female hostage staying by them and would try to protect her, even offering to do chores in her place.
The female hostages said that their captors began feeding them in the lead-up to their release. For four days leading up to that day, the captors had the hostages practice the “speech” they’d give during their propaganda release ceremony.
As for the hostages still in captivity, testimony from those who have returned reveals that one of them heard about one of his relatives being killed over the radio.
Another hostage has been shackled by his legs since his abduction and has been subjected to terrible physical abuse.
Another hostage was beaten so badly at one point that he lost consciousness, and his fellow hostages thought he was dead.
Unlike some of the other hostages who have been released, many of those still being held have not been given access to a radio or TV or the outside world.
They are told by the captors that no one in Israel is fighting for their release. One of the hostages still being held was told that his wife had moved on and that he has no one to come back to. 
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