On the occasion of International Human Rights Day yesterday (Tuesday), a meeting was held at the residence of the President of State, in which hostages returned from captivity but also representatives of the teams doctors who treated them.
Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, the chair of the Health Ministry's Hostage Condition Assessment Commission, described some elements contained in the report that documents physical and sexual violence against children, men and the female hostages: “These are descriptions of sexual assault, of detention in very harsh isolation, in the dark, without ever seeing the light of day. The hostages were starved, beaten and burned.
Noa Argamani spoke and said that it was only by a miracle that she survived, especially after being injured during an IDF bombing: “I was left injured, with my head cut open, no one helped me. helped. It was a medical miracle that saved my life”.
President Herzog stressed the urgency of freeing the hostages and underlined the danger that weighed on their lives as long as they remained in the hands of Hamas terrorists.
Also yesterday, the former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky, the companion of Matan Zangauker still detained, gave a moving testimony of the physical and psychological injuries she suffered in captivity: “My pelvis was broken, I was taken apart jaw, I wake up every night with nightmares.” She called on elected officials to act to bring back the hostages.
