After 471 days in captivity at the hands of Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...Death Eaters in Gazoo
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disproportionate response...
, three Israeli women who were released on the first day of a hostage release-ceasefire deal with the terror group have begun to share details of their ordeal, according to reports in Hebrew media on Monday.
Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, were handed over to the Red Thingy by masked Hamas button men in Gaza City on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by what appeared to be a chaotic crowd of mainly young men, many of them in Hamas uniforms and masked.
"We were scared to death at the transfer point, from the combination of the armed Death Eaters and the Gazook crowd," one of the women was quoted as saying by Channel 12 news, in comments approved for publication by the Israeli military censor.
The former hostages said that they were only told on Saturday that they were set to be released from Gaza the following day.
The three were the first hostages to be released in the initial stage of the three-phase accord, which provides for a total of 33 captives to be freed over 42 days in exchange for nearly 2,000 Paleostinian prisoners.
Gonen was kidnapped from the Supernova rave near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led Death Eaters burst across the border into Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians. Damari and Steinbrecher were both kidnapped from their homes at nearby Kibbutz Kfar Aza, during the terror rampage.
Channel 12 reported that the women said they were not held alone during their time in captivity, and that they were moved to various places in Gaza, including the designated "humanitarian zone" in the south of the Strip.
Some of the hostages said that they hardly saw the light of day over the past 15 months, spending most of their time in captivity underground.
They said that from time to time, they were exposed to television and radio news, including protests calling for the government to secure the release of the hostages held in Gaza.
"We saw your struggle," the former hostages were quoted as saying. "We heard our families fighting for us."
They were also said to have pieced together the details of the brutal Hamas attack that sparked the war, and they knew that their families had survived, though many of their friends were killed during the assault.
"I didn’t think I would come back. I thought I’d die in Gaza," one of the hostages was quoted by Channel 12 as saying.
The report added that while the women sometimes received medicines they required, one of them underwent a medical procedure without anesthesia during her captivity.
Both Damari and Gonen were shot during the terror attack in which they were kidnapped. Damari lost two fingers as a result of her injury.
Other former hostages who were released in a weeklong truce in November 2023 said they underwent surgery without anesthesia.
Also on Monday, parents and siblings of the three released hostages held a presser at the Sheba Medical Center, where the women were airlifted on Sunday evening, and said that they were all doing well. They also extended their gratitude to the government, the negotiators, US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, and the Israeli people for their support and assistance in bringing their loved ones home.
Hamas confirmed in an official statement on Monday that the next hostage release under the nascent ceasefire deal will take place on Saturday, January 25, as initially scheduled, despite a previous claim from the terror group’s prisoners’ office.
Four hostages are set to be released this coming Saturday. Over the following four weeks, three hostages will be released each Saturday, until a final group of 14 on day 42 of the ceasefire.