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Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker alive but in distress, says freed American Edan Alexander
Newly freed Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander has provided new information about Zangauker, confirming that he is alive but suffering from significant weight loss, abdominal pain and mental distress.
Newly freed Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander provided new information about Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker, confirming that he is alive but suffering from significant weight loss, abdominal pain and mental distress, according to Zangauker’s family.
Zangauker was held by Hamas alongside Alexander from October 7, 2023, until Alexander’s release last week, Zangauker’s family said in a statement. The family said it learned about Zangauker’s condition following Alexander’s release.
Zangauker, 25, has been in “severe mental distress” in recent months, according to information disclosed by his family, and has been refusing to speak or eat, even after Hamas began giving Zangauker and Alexander more food in recent months.
The new information prompted the latest call from his mother for the Israeli government to end the war and secure the release of all remaining hostages in Gaza.
“Since I learned about the torture and the physical and mental suffering my son is enduring, I haven’t been able to eat, and I can barely breathe. How can a mother survive knowing her son, who suffers from a degenerative muscle disease, is being held alone in captivity? Can he even stand on his own? Hold a glass of water? My heart is breaking over what he’s going through,” Einav Zangauker said in a statement.
“While they are living in hell, the Israeli government is bombing the area where Matan is being held. The prime minister can no longer say he didn’t know or hadn’t heard. Continued military pressure and the isolation Matan is experiencing will lead to his death. The Israeli government must end the war and put a real initiative to bring everyone back on the table,” Zangauker said.
This really is amazing to me. Here we have Hamas murdering and butchering people on 10/7 and taking others captive in the most primitive and inhuman of conditions, and people blame Israel for continuing to fight them? Does Israel stop the war and give them what they want which will only incentivize them to take more hostages to get more of what they want?
I understand the pain of the immediate family because they want their loved ones saved at any cost, but is it worth the cost of other lives?
No, no its not.
