Boy held by Hamas ‘forced to watch videos of 7 October attacks’, says aunt
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Recently released Eitan Yahalomi, 12, suffered ‘horrors’ at the hands of militant Palestinian group, according to family member

“Every time a child cried, they would threaten him with a weapon to shut him up.”

She added: “I wanted to believe that Eitan would be well treated. Apparently not. Those people are monsters.”

Eitan’s whole family, including his mother and two sisters, aged 10 and 20 months, were abducted on what some in Israel now refer to as “Black Saturday”.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If the media was directly allowed to speak to the hostages after the release this might have been believable. The iron grip that israel has now put on their media however, indicates they are not allowing a repeat of the first hostage released that said she was treated well. This statement was not even made by a hostage but by a family member.

    Is this article the truth? Were they forced to watch 7Oct videos or did a Hamas guys just put on the TV? Did this even happen? Is this bad translation such as the 80 year old woman that was “hit with sticks” in translation but in reality it was the sticks of the field that hit her?

    It’s sad that israel has lied so much in this conflict about beheaded babies, command centers under hospitals and much more. Now it’s impossible to believe anything that is vetted by their media.

    The physical condition of the released hostages indicates they were not mistreated. As for the mental stuff, it’s possible for the IDF to make up whatever they want.