While the most beloved baby in Israel, You drink kfir10 months, continues still in the hands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad along with more than 140 other kidnapped people, including his brother Arielfour years old, and his parents Shiri and Yarden, the testimonies of the already released children who wanted to speak complete a haunting portrait of captivity.
The picture of psychological terror applied in tunnels or houses in the Gaza Strip is far from the idyllic image that Hamas produces and disseminates in the daily television delivery of hostages since last Friday. when the truce agreed with his enemy began.
The stories to their families after more than 50 days of captivity are dominated by stories such as violent welcome from Gazan civilians to a 12-year-old boythe death threats to two girls so that they do not tell anything when they return, the malnutritionthe absence of light, of minimum sanitary conditions and of news about your parents and grandparentsthe isolation, the dangerous transfer from one place to another in the midst of the Israeli military offensive and a silence imposed with words or with rifles.
On their first days back in one of the noisiest countries, Israeli children do not speak but whisper. Hamas stole their freedom and kidnapped their voice.
Eitan Yahalomi, 12 years old, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz. His father is still in the hands of Hamas. His testimony, told by his aunt Deborah Cohen, has increased the anger of many Israelis not only against Hamas but also against the population of Gazaalready high due to the participation of unarmed Gazans in the attacks of last October 7 or their shouts of encouragement to the armed wing of the fundamentalist group in the handover of hostages.