Through a long interview with Repubblica, Noya Shilo, the Israeli doctor who treats 30 people recently released by Hamas, revealed the conditions of the hostages when they were returned to their home state after negotiations between Tel Aviv and the Islamic terrorist group. The doctor explained that he was tasked with taking in 30 people, adults and children, after they were released from captivity. What was the most significant damage? “I saw significant damage to the bodies. Two things above all. First, the gunshot wounds received on October 7 during the kidnapping that went untreated and became complicated. Two, many of them had blood clots in their legs and lungs because they always they had been standing still for so long. Furthermore, they were malnourished and dehydrated, some had lost twenty kilos,” said the doctor.
However, what weighs most in the balance are the psychological consequences of depending on the will of a terrorist group. “When you are in the hands of Hamas, you do what Hamas tells you. Most of them were kept in isolation for more than 50 days, on one pita bread a day, without medicine, without wound treatment, without daylight. The Hamas told them that there was no more Israel, there was no place to return to,” explained Noya Shilo. “When we tried to approach them, they instinctively retreated because their trust in the world had been shaken. I spent a week in the hospital without returning to home because I didn’t want to break the bond of trust, otherwise someone else would have to start over. zero”, he then added.
As history teaches, but perhaps not enough, those who are victims of terrorists capable of committing brutal acts are, in most cases, also victims of abuse. “There is no doubt that crimes of a sexual nature were committed on October 7th. As a medical team we were shocked to hear every type of abuse imaginable, the most brutal and cruel things imaginable, it was truly inhumane and against people. more innocent”, concluded the doctor.
Source: IL Tempo
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