Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami who were released from 491 days in Hamas captivity revealed to Israeli media horrific testimonies about the physical and mental torture they suffered at the hands of their captors in Gaza. Warning – this may be difficult to read. Levy and Ben Ami described how they were taken separately to brutal interrogations, during which they were subjected to physical torture as their captors demanded information while severely abusing them, including hanging them upside down by their feet (a known Hamas torture tactic). They were left alone for long periods and were barefoot throughout their captivity. Their captors strangled them, tied them up, gagged their mouths with cloth to the point of suffocation, and branded them with a burning object. According to the testimonies, they were put in a small room inside a tunnel where they could neither move nor stand and had difficulty breathing. They said that they were deliberately starved, and for long periods were not given any food at all. Every few days they would receive rotten pita bread, which they had to share with other hostages who were with them. Furthermore, they went for long periods without drinking, as they were not given water. One of the hostages said: "We were treated like animals." Only when the terrorists realized that the hostages were about to be released did they provide them with a little more food, so that they would be able to stand on their feet during their release.

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