choose the path that would not harm the country.”<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to Eitan, even during his time captivity he accepted the possibility that he might not return alive: “I came to terms with the fact that I could die in Gaza, because the State needs to destroy Hamas,” he said.<\/p>\n
His father, Tzvika Mor, said this position stems from a broad Zionist worldview, stressing that Eitan “also has the ability to understand the bigger picture, a Zionist perspective – we are in a war, the country needs to win. I am not the most important person in the world; there are also soldiers above me who are being killed.”<\/p>\n
Asked, “What didn\u2019t we know about Hamas that you can tell us?” Eitan replied: “They will not give in. Many Hamas operatives told me – until you remove the last Gazan from here, we will give you another October 7. They are extremely obsessive toward us, and I wish we were as obsessive [toward them] as they are toward us.”<\/p>\n
In the interview, Eitan said that during interrogation in Gaza he was questioned about his military service and that they even tried to recruit him.<\/p>\n
“They took me down to be interrogated in some tunnel and started questioning me about the army, what I did,” he recounted. “So I told them, listen, I was a regular soldier in Golani Battalion 12 – you know more than I do about the army I served in – and that\u2019s the truth. They know more than most regular soldiers. They told me, come be a spy, we\u2019ll pay you well. I told them, of course not.”<\/p>\n
He added that during captivity he discovered Hamas possesses detailed manuals about the IDF, including information on elite units.<\/p>\n
Asked who his biggest enemies were during his military service, he replied humorously: “The Military Police.”<\/p>\n
Regarding the protests that took place<\/a> while he was in captivity, Eitan said: “Those things give strength. I thank those who went out. But I don\u2019t think it gave me hope, because in the end the government decides. They always told me, look, you see, all Israelis want [a deal] at any price. So I told them, listen, Al Jazeera doesn\u2019t show the other side, the right wing. And if they saw the other side, they would be very disappointed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former hostage Eitan Mor revealed that he had agreed to die in Gaza, so long as Israel was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4527,45564,49973,99,50,29422],"class_list":{"0":"post-523696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hamas","9":"tag-hostages","10":"tag-hostages-in-gaza","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-swords-of-iron"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115912662383806537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}