Eli Sharabi, 53, who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 491 days before being released in the most recent hostage deal, addressed the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, delivering a harrowing account of his captivity.
“I have come back from hell,” Sharabi said. “I was kept underground, starved, beaten and chained like an animal. For 491 days, I begged for food, begged to use the bathroom—begging became my existence.”
Sharabi, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, was abducted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed his home, murdered his wife, Lianne, and their daughters, Noiya and Yahel, and dragged him to Gaza.
“The last thing I told them was, ‘I will be back.’ I had to believe that,” he recounted. “But I did not know I should have said goodbye forever.”
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