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‘Sometimes we had to cook for terrorists’: Released hostages open up about life in captivity

Some of the abducted women reportedly ‘met very senior Hamas people’

January 26, 2025 12:29
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Hamas fighters escort the female Israeli hostages to hand them over to a team from the Red Cross (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)
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The four female hostages released Saturday have told Israeli media about life being held by Hamas, revealing that on occasions they had to cook for their captors and were held in the homes of Gaza civilians.

They also said they wanted to show that they were “not fazed” by the attempt at staged humiliation by Hamas terrorists during the handover in Gaza City.

The four women — abducted IDF surveillance soldiers Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19 — were seen in footage acting calmly and confidently, and smiling and waving to the crowds of gunmen and Gazans.

“We showed them on the stage that we were not fazed,” Kan TV news quoted one of them as telling family and friends. “It had no impact on us. We are stronger than them.”