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"āBreak my ribs again, just give me foodā: Hamas hostage on his desperate plea to captors
Eli Sharabiās defiance sustained him through 491 days in captivity. Then came the news that his wife and daughters had been murderedā¦
I am going to meet the saddest man in the world, or so I think. On October 7 2023, Eli Sharabi lost his wife and two daughters as Hamas terrorists rampaged through their kibbutz near Israelās southern border, burning, beheading, gleefully slaughtering. The sorrow is unimaginable. But it gets worse. Eli was taken hostage before his family were murdered. For the next 491 days, most of the time spent in a tunnel beneath Gaza, he was sustained by the thought that, if only he could survive, he would be reunited with Lianne, who was born and brought up in Bristol, and their beloved girls, 16-year-old Noiya, and Yahel, just turned 13. āIāll come back!ā he shouted as the brutes dragged him away.
And he was as good as his word. There is a heart-stopping moment in Eliās book, Hostage, where he returns from the underworld, literally almost half the man he was, and, suddenly, he knows. The social worker who welcomes him at the hostage handover point says his mother and sister are waiting for him. Eli says he wants his wife and daughters, and the social worker says his mother and sister will explain.
āItās all clear in that moment, right there, standing in front of her. I understand everything. I understand it in my bones. I understand it from head to toe. I understand it, and I feel the pain pulsating through my broken body, a pain without a name and without form, and nobody needs to say another word.ā"
Israel lost 1195 citizens to Hamas Islamic terrorists on 10/7. The US lost 2400 servicemen at Pearl Harbor.
The Democrat president dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan to make them surrender. Now, Hamas is suing for
peace after the IDF pounded them into submission and Trump gave them an ultimatum. Hamas should have thought about
the consequences of their sneak attack first.