Some of the hostages freed from Gaza so far under a ceasefire deal have been held in Hamas tunnels for up to eight months straight, without seeing the light of day and with little human contact, a senior Israeli official said today. Three Israeli civilians and four female soldiers have so far been released in the ceasefire, which began on January 19. In return, Israel released 290 Palestinian convicts and prisoners. “Some of them told us that for the last few months, that all this time, they were in tunnels, underground,” the deputy head of the Israeli army’s medical corps, Colonel Dr. Avi Banov. “Some of them were alone the whole time they were there,” he said. “Those who said they were together were in better shape.” The Israeli military oversees the first medical tests that hostages undergo when they arrive on Israeli soil. Reuters could not be reached […]
Source: News Beast
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