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wn.com - 4 days ago

Surviving 491 days in Hamas captivity

As he is being dragged out of his house by Hamas terrorists with Kalashnikovs on the morning of Saturday 7 October 2023, 51-year-old Eli Sharabi tells his wife, “Lianne, don’t freak out”. She will be safe, he is sure. So will their daughters, Noiya, and Yahel, who turned 16 and 13 the week before. Terrorists would not kidnap women and children. And besides, they have British passports. It is this thought that enables Sharabi to stay calm as he is forced, still wearing his pyjamas, into a vehicle stolen from Kibbutz Be’eri where he has lived for 35 years, and driven into the Gaza Strip. “I’m being kidnapped,” he tells himself. “I understand this is a catastrophe. I understand what this means....


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