Gerettete Geiseln wurden „fast jeden Tag“ geschlagen, sagt der Arzt, der sie behandelte

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1. “The doctor overseeing the recovery of four Israeli hostages rescued from the Gaza Strip said Monday that they were beaten regularly during their captivity by the Hamas terror group.

   Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv told CNN that the hostages suffered almost daily abuse and that their time in captivity was “a harsh, harsh experience.”

   “Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension,” Pessach said.

   Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov were rescued on Saturday from eight months of Hamas captivity in Gaza in a daring operation by Israeli forces.

   According to CNN, Pessach said the eight months the hostages spent in Hamas captivity “left a significant mark on their health,” despite their outward appearance of being in good shape.

   “They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he said, adding that the hostages had said the supply of food and water varied, and that they were moved a few times and dealt with different guards.

   “There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever,” Pessach said. “There were other periods where it was a little better, but all in all, the combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition or not getting enough food or not getting the right kind of food, medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun and all of the other things have [a] significant effect on health.”

   Elaborating on the psychological strain, he said: “As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith, I think, is where you get to the breaking point.”

   Argamani, Meir Jan, Kozlov, and Ziv were abducted from the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im on the morning of October 7, when 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a murderous rampage across southern Israel.

   Officers of the police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, along with Shin Bet agents, on Saturday morning simultaneously raided two multi-story buildings in the heart of Nuseirat, where the four hostages were being held by Hamas-affiliated families and guards of the terror group, according to the military.

   Hamas’s government media office claimed at least 274 people were killed amid the operation, an unverified figure that also does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

   The IDF acknowledged that it killed Palestinian civilians amid the fighting, but it placed the blame on Hamas for holding hostages and fighting in a dense civilian environment. “We know about under 100 [Palestinian] casualties. I don’t know how many of them are terrorists,” IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Saturday.”

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3. Devastating and not surprising

4. All eyes on Hamas!

   Committing daily war crimes is their business.

5. How long before some pro-hamas nutjob comes in here telling us we can’t trust the source because they are jewish/israeli? Oh wait… I see deleted comments below.

6. But wait, Hamas are the good guys! /s

7. So we needed to kill almost 300 people because of that?

8. Not surprised.

9. Amazing how there’s a huge vocal Reddit population in favor of Gaza that are then just absent from these posts. Please understand what Hamas is and their position in Gaza before you march in the streets. Seriously, please. This is not as simple as you’d like to make it.

10. To all of the moralizing, bleeding hearts on Reddit: if your family members were hostages would you still be calling for a ceasefire?

11. This has been an Iranian, Hamas chess game from 10/7. Gaza and tens of thousands of Palestinians are considered disposable pawns to the Iranians.

12. Now let’s hear the hostage statement

13. Lmao just saw an article where one of the hostages is being berated because she described her imprisonment as “decent treatment” so which propaganda is true?

14. Its almost like there is no food in gaza to feed the hostages. Maybe Isreal shouldn’t have bombed the food trucks

15. OMG …….can someone tell how many more of these hostages are still to be rescued? And how many are already freed/ safe and others unfortunately are killed? These terrorists sud be tortured…..

16. Sorry to say, Israel won’t stop until Hamas, and sadly much of Gaza, is destroyed 

17. Held by Al Jazeera sympathizers

18. Why would they rescue hostages just to beat them?

19. Israeli doctor says Israelis sufffered. I bet they did, and Hamas sucks as this is true, as well as for their attacks in October. Awful. But as for Dr.Pessach, obviously he has no conception of the personhood of Palestinians. Who suffer at a rate of 10-to-one relative to Israelis. And who watch as their land is taken from them by American money and the attacks of a right wing Govt desperate to save Bibis fat stupid corrupt ass.

20. I’m sorry, not sorry, but both sides have been coming out with some bull shit lies and both being caught over and over again in their lies. If it happened, I’m not surprised. If it didn’t, I’m still not surprised.

21. oh but they had a birthday cake for one of the hostages, they treated them so well! /s

22. Hamas needs to be destroyed.

23. Ofcourse they were.. just how babies were supposedly be headed

24. I’m going to get flack for this and I don’t care.
    For the record, I am not pro-Hamas. They are using Palestinians as human shields and it sickens me.
    However, I work in a hospital. I’ve seen people in various states.
    I’ve seen people die right in front of me.

    I recommend that for accuracy, the physical examination be corroborated by someone outside of the scope of Israel’s power.
    For the amount of torture and malnutrition he is claiming
    “almost daily abuse”;
    “Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types…”
    “They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted…”

    I’ve seen people waste away while receiving the best care on a daily basis.
    What he’s describing does not work with “despite their outward appearance of being in good shape.” Not after 8 months of malnourishment and being tortured on the hour.

25. Hard to believe when every image of the rescued they are perfectly fine, not a single bruise, healthy. Not to mention their own accounts of having to dodge Israeli missiles that killed 3 of the hostages already. But yes let’s listen to this doctor who works under a regime that controls every aspect of the news.

26. Those hostages, in particular, looked well fed and well taken care of in a long-term manner. Maybe it’s just me, but I expected them to be skinny, dirty and banged up.

27. Hamas mistreating people, shocking

28. As bad as the hostages had it, and I don’t doubt it was bad, over a million Palestinians have had it worse because of decisions made by Israel’s conservative government. 

    Yes, Hamas has to be eliminated. All that is needed to get ride of the sadistic Israeli government is for Israeli people to choose better leaders than current set of butchers and criminals. 

29. Really. A terrorist group beat non Arab hostages daily. WOW. Earth shocking revelation.
    Next they are going to tell me the sun is bright.

30. Will they ever release formal write ups of details of what the hostages experienced? Even if not what each individual experienced but like a compilation