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Eitan Horn, a freed hostage in his late 30s, lost about half his body weight and was forced to walk for about 12 hours through the tunnels beneath Gaza when his captors wanted to move him, his sister-in-law, Dalia Cusnir, said in an interview.
The wife of another survivor of Hamas captivity, Elkana Bohbot, said in a video statement that he had returned with severe stomach pain because his captors had tried to fatten him up before his release, after months of receiving hardly any food.
And the friends of one released hostage, Yosef-Chaim Ohana, told Israeli television on Thursday that he had been so cut off from the world for the past two years that he had not heard of ChatGPT.
When Hamas returned the last 20 living hostages it was holding to Israel on Monday, their families, like many Israelis, waited with trepidation to find out the condition of the captives who had been kept largely incommunicado with little food and sometimes shackled. In many cases, they were held in dank, dark tunnels deep under Gaza.
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They had all been seized, along with scores of others, during the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the devastating two-year war in the Palestinian enclave.
