Alon Ohel, who was held captive by terrorists in Gaza for more than two years following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, tells Channel 12 that his legs were chained for a year and a half and that he and his fellow captives were intentionally starved. “They take your freedom of movement, put chains on your legs,” he says. In his first lengthy interview since being released, along with 19 other surviving hostages, on October 13, Ohel, 24, tells the network he was treated “like a monkey.” “I would eat like a dog,” he says. “You’re not a person, you’re an animal.” He adds, “Even in prison, there’s a system. I wasn’t in prison, I was in captivity. They’re crazy people. If you’re not strong mentally, you can go crazy.” He added that his captors chose to starve them, even as he and his fellow hostages knew that those holding them had food. He said that at one point, all he was allowed to eat was dried dates, and that he appeared skeletal at times. “You get used to starvation, to pains in your body all the time,” he says, adding that he spent “hours lying like a corpse.”
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