During television interviews conducted with released hostages taken by Hamas to Gaza during the horrific attacks of October 7th, those held captive revealed chilling information about Gazans. In primetime Hebrew TV interviews, the released hostages have confirmed that “ordinary Gazans were deeply complicit in every stage of the hostage scheme.”
Among the acts of terror, “unarmed teens helped to abduct Jews from their homes on Oct. 7, while Gazan women and children held some of the Israelis captive. In other cases, Gazan doctors collaborated with Hamas terrorists to covertly treat kidnapped Israelis and imprison them in hospitals” reports the Washington Free Beacon.
On Israel’s Channel 12 news earlier this month, Nili Margalit, 41, recounted how Gazan “civilians, regular people” took her hostage at knifepoint on Oct. 7. Margalit said a “boy … 17, maybe 18 years old” and an “older man with the knife” broke down the door of her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and forced her into a stolen golf cart, still barefoot and wearing pajamas.
As they exited the kibbutz, Margalit said, she saw a “mob, thousands of people,” including “women and children,” pouring across Israel’s breached border with Gaza, less than two miles away. She said a pair of boys, one “no more than 4 or 5 years old” and the other 15 or 16, were riding an ATV that belonged to her father, a local cattle breeder who was among about 1,200 people in Israel murdered by terrorists that day.
Roni Krivoi, a 25-year-old Israeli taken hostage from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, was recaptured by ordinary Gazans after he escaped captivity for several days, his aunt told Israel’s Kan public radio station following his release in November.
Chen Goldstein-Almog, 48, said Hamas terrorists moved her and her three youngest children, 17, 11, and 9, between different homes, the tunnels, a school, and a grocery store in Gaza. She also told the New York Times that they were held in a mosque. The family walked from location to location at night, wearing hijabs to hide their identity.
Goldstein-Almog’s 17-year-old daughter, Agam, said that during their stay at the school, “a sweet lady welcomed us and offered us water and arranged a place for us to sleep.”
“I turned to my mother and said, ‘There are good people in the world,'” Agam recalled. “And five minutes later, they shot a barrage of rockets from the school [into Israel] and everyone was shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,’ and I told her, ‘Forget what I said, they’re all the same.'”
Mia Schem, who was shot in the arm and abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Supernova rave on Oct. 7, said her captors brought her directly to a hospital in Gaza as she was bleeding to death. The surgeon who operated on her arm “looked at me and said, ‘You’re not going home alive,'” she recalled.
After the procedure, Schem received no further treatment of even pain medication, she said. She was taken to a family home, where a man and his family held her captive with “pure hate,” Schem said, forbidding her to speak, cry, or move. She would go days without receiving food and was never allowed to bathe.
“[The man’s] wife hated the fact that he and I were in the same room. She hated it. So she’d taunt me,” Schem said, recounting how the woman would insult her appearance and bring the man food “but nothing for me.”
“The children would open the door look at me, talk about me, laugh at me,” Schem said. “One time, the son enters the room with a bag of candy. He opens the bag and gives his father candy, then comes over to me, opens the bag, closes it, and leaves. You know, pure evil.”
“I experienced hell. Everyone there are terrorists,” Schem said in a separate interview on Israel’s Channel 13. “There are no innocent civilians, not one.”
