A 72-year-old Israeli woman, who was held hostage by Hamas terrorists for almost 50 days, has made major revelations.
She told an Israeli TV channel on Wednesday that she was kept in a dark, humid tunnel where she met the Hamas leader.
The war between Hamas and Israel has been going on since October last year.
Adina Moshe was taken prisoner on October 7 from the village of Kibbutz Nir Oz. He was freed in late November following an agreement with Hamas.
Under this agreement, Hamas released about 100 Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Most of the people released were women and children.
Adina Moshe’s interview on Israeli channel ’12 TV’ comes as efforts continue to reach a new agreement under which the remaining 100 or so detainees could be freed.
The interview also sheds new light on the difficult conditions the hostages endured while in Hamas captivity, where Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar met with Moshe and a group of hostages.
Moshe said that Sinwar addressed them all in Hebrew and asked, ‘Hello. How are you? Everything is fine?’ Sinwar told that he had learned this language during his long imprisonment in Israel. Moshe said the hostages bowed their heads and did not respond.
Describing her captivity, Moshe said that terrorists raided the house where she lived with her husband David.
She said one terrorist took her out while the other killed her husband. She said she was then taken to Gaza on a motorcycle with two armed terrorists, where she was tortured and the terrorists took all her jewelry and a passerby stole her glasses.
Moshe and a group of other hostages were led into Hamas’s vast network of tunnels from where they were taken to an underground room and told that they would be released in the coming days.
“We trusted him,” he said. We believed that this would be the first thing that Israel would do. It took about 50 days for them to be freed.