Revealed: The horrendous abuses suffered by Hamas hostages during their 500 days in hell - from being hung by their feet to having to share rotten pita bread between each other to survive

Hamas brutally tortured antheral hostages for astir 500 days holding them successful conditions truthful barbaric they had to larn to locomotion again earlier their release.

Terrorists hung them by their feet, throttled them with rope, gagged their mouths and branded them with burning objects.

The captives were deliberately starved, held successful a country wrong a passageway truthful tiny they could not determination nor basal and were near struggling for air.

After days without nutrient oregon h2o they were handed rotten pita breadstuff which they were made to stock with others.

'We were treated similar animals,' 1 said connected being released.

Or Levy, 34, who was freed connected Saturday alongside Eli Sharabi, 54, and Ohad Ben AMi, 56, said: 'I was bound successful chains - towards the merchandise I learned to walk.'

The terrorists subjected the men to barbaric interrogation sessions implicit 491 days successful captivity.

Hamas strangled them, tied them up and gagged their mouths with cloth truthful they astir suffocated.

It was lone erstwhile they were owed for merchandise that the captives were permitted nutrient truthful that they could basal connected their feet during the handover ceremony.

Detailing the horrific maltreatment connected Israeli transmission Kan 11, journalists warned: 'It is intolerable to process the things we are astir to uncover now.'

They said: 'The 3 were deliberately starved, going for agelong days without immoderate nutrient astatine all.

'Every fewer days, they were fixed a rotten pita bread, which they were forced to stock with different hostages held with them. They went full days without receiving immoderate water. They did not drink.

'One of the hostages adjacent collapsed successful captivity. It was a traumatic event—those held with him thought helium had died.

'All of them endured horrific torture—things that are hard to fathom, but it is important to archer what is happening successful the tunnels.

'They were taken separately for brutal interrogations by the terrorists, who demanded accusation portion inflicting terrible carnal abuse.

'They were strangled, their limbs were tied, their mouths were covered with cloth to the constituent of suffocation, they were hung by their feet, and they suffered burns caused by a heated object.

'Regarding the conditions of their captivity, according to the testimonies, they were confined successful a tiny country wrong a passageway wherever they could not move, surely not stand, and struggled to breathe. They remained unsocial for agelong days. They were barefoot the full time.'

Mr Levy was astatine Nova euphony festival with his 32-year-old woman Einav - the parent of his three-year-old lad Almog - erstwhile terrorists executed her, and took him hostage.

Mr Levy lone recovered retired that his spouse had been killed connected release.

'His biggest fearfulness was confirmed, helium discovered yesterday that his woman was gone,' Mr Levy's brother, Michael, 41, said yesterday.

Mr Sharabi besides lone learnt that his Bristol calved woman Lianne, 48, and their daughters Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13 had been killed connected release.

Hamas taunted him during their ‘handover ceremony’ wherever they made him accidental helium was looking guardant to seeing his woman and children erstwhile helium got backmost home.

Speaking astatine a property league astatine Sheba Medical Centre, adjacent Tel Aviv, wherever the 3 men are being treated, Michael elaborate the mixed emotions of the cruel release.

'Yesterday, aft a twelvemonth and 4 months, I saw my member again,' helium said. 'I hugged him, but helium wasn't the aforesaid Or who near location connected October 7.

'He came backmost successful mediocre carnal condition. Anyone who saw the pictures and videos couldn't disregard it. For 16 months, helium was hungry, barefoot and successful changeless fearfulness that mundane tin beryllium his last.

'The hardest stroke was yesterday erstwhile Or discovered that Einav, the emotion of his life, was murdered connected that unspeakable day. For 491 days, helium held onto anticipation that helium would instrumentality to her.'

Earlier, Michael had told Israeli tv of the horrors the antheral hostages are experiencing successful Gaza.

'The stories helium tells are harrowing, precise distressing, precise pugnacious experiences,' helium said. 'I can't adjacent picture it…

'I'm telling you, without a shadiness of a doubt, helium wouldn’t person survived - the Or that I saw yesterday wouldn’t person survived for different two, 3 weeks oregon a period successful captivity.'

Detailing the abuse, Michael said it was directed by Hamas person and October 7 mastermind Sinwar who was killed by Israel past October.

'He talked astir a deliberate policy… a deliberate directive from above, from Sinwar,' helium said. 'It was intentional starvation.'

Michael revealed that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was alert arsenic helium called connected the woody to clasp to escaped the remaining antheral hostages.

'I tin archer you, unequivocally, that they did perceive astir intentional starvation,' helium said.

'The premier curate did cognize astir it, due to the fact that respective months ago, authoritative representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the IDF and the Prime Minister’s Office – the Hostages Administration, which is nether the Prime Minister’s Office – came to our home, and they told america astir a deliberate argumentation dictated from above, by Yahya Sinwah, who ordered that the big antheral hostages were to beryllium starved.

'So, there’s nary mode that we and the families were privy to this, and the premier curate wasn’t. No way.'

Michael revealed that it was an IDF scientist who told his member that his woman had died arsenic it was the archetypal question helium asked erstwhile helium was handed implicit to Israeli forces.

He besides had an affectional reunion with his son, Almog, whom helium feared would not recognise him arsenic helium was a babe erstwhile his begetter was taken.

'Almog recognised him close away,' Michael said. 'That was the astir moving acquisition I’ve ever had. It truly was amazing. And they haven’t separated since.'

Last nighttime Almog slept by his begetter for the archetypal time. 'That was his father’s dream,' Michael said.

'Every nighttime successful captivity, helium dreamed of the infinitesimal helium would enactment Almog to bed, and I’ll assistance them with that today.

'The 3 of america volition prevarication successful bed, we’ll work a story, and they’ll autumn dormant successful each other’s arms.'

Some 76 hostages stay successful Gaza.

It comes arsenic Benjamin Netanyahu provoked choler among Arab leaders by suggesting a Palestinian authorities could beryllium established successful Saudi Arabia. 

The PM made the comments erstwhile helium responded to an interviewer connected pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 who misspoke by saying ‘Saudi state’ alternatively of ‘Palestinian state’ earlier correcting himself. 

A Palestinian state,’ Mr Netanyahu said, correcting the interviewer. 

‘Unless you privation the Palestinian authorities to beryllium successful Saudi Arabia, they person a batch of territory.’ 

The Arab League said yesterday that the remarks showed ‘a implicit detachment from reality’. 

‘The logic down them is unacceptable and reflects a implicit detachment from reality,’ the determination bloc’s main Ahmed Aboul Gheit said successful a statement, adding that ideas arsenic the 1 aired by Netanyahu ‘are thing much than specified fantasies oregon illusions’. 

• Additional reporting by Yaniv Berman