The mother of hostage Eliya Cohen said Sunday that her son had been held with returning hostages who were chained, gagged, burned with a searing hot object, hung by the feet and starved.
Sigi Cohen said the hostages testified that her son was being held in a tunnel, has been chained for the entire length of his captivity, gets little food or daylight, and suffers from an untreated bullet wound to the leg sustained during the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.
Cohen’s comments came as the family of hostage Alon Ohel said they received a first sign of life from him. Ohel’s mother Idit said he was also bound, starved and untreated for shrapnel in his shoulder, arm and now-partially blinded eye.
“The hostages sleep on the floor and need to share a blanket,” Idit Ohel told Army Radio on Monday, as her hostage son marked his 24th birthday.
Meanwhile, Vicky Cohen, mother of 20-year-old captive soldier Nimrod Cohen, told Channel 12 Monday that a returning hostage had been held with her son for some six months. She said the hostage told her Nimrod was held in a tunnel for most of his captivity and was not bound, but appeared to be in poor physical and mental shape. Nimrod Cohen was said to trust that his family was doing everything to save him.
The new information followed the release Saturday of hostages Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who returned to Israel dangerously emaciated. They were said to have gone for days without food, and then only given a single rotten pita bread to share. Their captors would reportedly cover the hostages’ mouths in a thick cloth that made it difficult for them to breathe. Before their public handover ceremony, the hostages were paraded in front of cheering terrorists.
Eliya Cohen’s mother told the Israel Hayom newspaper that her son was held in the tunnels with Ben Ami, Sharabi and Levy, and that seeing them left her sleepless: “You understand they are suffering a holocaust.”
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