‘I don’t know how he survived’, liberated the niece of Israeli hostage

Gaza held hostage by Hamas for 15 months, 80 -year -old Gadi Musa, mainly ate a piece of bread and a olive twice a day, his niece calls Maachchwa.

“I don’t know how he survived,” she tells the BBC. “He lost so much weight.”

He said that he was given a small bowl of water to wash himself every five days and was asked to use the toilet. He went repeatedly and was mostly alone, Ms. Machikwa said that “loneliness is another form of torture”.

He said that he calculated mathematics problems in his head to distract himself, and went up to 11 km (six miles) in a room, measuring the distance, he said.

“Even in the most dark times, he knew how to pick up himself somehow,” he said. “Reunion with the family and the greatest power to worry about us was the only nutrition that was for his soul.”

In exchange for 583 Palestinian prisoners, as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was one of the 18 hostages that released so far this year.

The aim of the ceasefire is to end the 15 -month war in Gaza, when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and took 251 as hostages.

According to the Hamas-Interacted Health Ministry, Israel’s military operation is seen as reliable by the United Nations in response to killing more than 47,000 people in Gaza.

Now, since the hostages return to captivity for more than a year, the details of their conditions are emerging. Eating limited food, without fresh vegetables, The conditions mentioned by Ghazan during the war are similar,

Family members of two former hostages told the BBC that they came back thin.

The 65-year-old American-Israeli hostage Keith Seigel’s niece Taal Wax, “Taal Wax, which he returned to us, is very excited to bring the Keith back home, but is very worried.” Was released on Saturday.

“Although we can see that he is able to walk and talk, we see he has lost a lot of weight,” he said.

He listened to his cousin and Mr. Sagal’s wife Aviva that “he had to bear a lot of terrible circumstances in captivity, while he is still a good person who is he.”

He is still a vegetarian, he said.

“Keith is very human and he wanted to tell us that he is still the same person … even through it … he is still living for his beliefs,” he said .

“This is just the beginning of their rehabilitation. We have a long way ahead of us.”

Ms. Maachikawa said that even her uncle’s release was a “terrible” experience.

As the mob surrounded him in Gaza on Thursday, he thought that it is “the end of his life”, he said.

After returning to Israel, she was able to sleep for the first time for the first time after capturing her.

“I think my stress is slowly melting,” he said.

On Friday, she ran into the hospital to hug her uncle, where she gave her the “strongest, most powerful hug”, and she excluded the “ripping of tears of relief and love”.

“We understand that the uncle we know is what we know, but more than that,” he said, because he was talking about rehabilitation and being strong, and to return to his fields He was dreaming, where he is an agricultural expert.

“Dedicating myself to unity and family and justice is more than a correct reason, because I stopped my life on 7 October,” he said.

He thanked Qatar and the US for the mediation of the deal, and the “brave” red cross workers were released.

“Happiness is amazing”, he said, but he has mixed feelings until every mortgage is returned. He said “We should erase terror” and “Israel must secure its boundaries and work for a better neighborhood and region”.

“We will always try to be better, to be like a dad, to be the worst time and gives a hand to the possibility of better life with all the people around us.”

This year, some hostages free so far have spoken publicly about their experiences.

On Saturday, the Doron Stinebrecher, who was freed two weeks ago, released a video statement.

“It will take time and this is a process – it won’t end in a week or two, but I thank you here, and I am fine,” he said.

“I think everyone knows me with that terrible recording” they caught me, they caught me, they caught me “or wearing pink as a golden haired girl,” she said. “But I am no longer blonde, and I will not wear pink anymore. I am Doron, I am 31 years old. I am no longer a prisoner of Hamas, and I am home.”

He said, “You are not alone” and “We continue fighting for you for families of loved ones, he said.

It includes the Bibas family, who welcomed the Yordan on Saturday, but not his wife, Shiri and two younger sons, aerial and kefir, who were also taken hostage.

Hamas had earlier said that he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the war – but he was named A list of hostages It said that in January it was ready to free.

The Bibas family said in a statement, “A quarter of our heart has returned to us after 15 long months.” “Yordon has returned home, but the house remains incomplete.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that his country was “deeply worried” about his fate.

Another 15 hostages and about 1,300 Palestinian prisoners are still due to release in the first six weeks of the ceasefire, which began on January 19.