Keith Sigel, along with the offer Calderon and Yaden Vivas, explained the details of POWs on Saturday after his release.
He explained the trials of Hamas POWs, not only being detained in the tunnel under the city, but also restrained in a private apartment trapped in a room hidden by visitors.
Keith said he had hardly received food and was often forced to eat meat to survive, despite being a vegetarian.
He was also told that his son, Shi, was killed on October 7 and only knew he was alive by listening to the radio.
OFER and Yarden told kan that he had stayed in the cage in the first few weeks.
OFER is reported to have asked IDF to be a beer when he was released from POWs. He was told that this was impossible for his condition and needed to gradually re -adjust to avoid fatal syndrome.
Yarden explained the wide psychological torture that Hamas put him below. His prisoners regularly talked about his wife and children, Siri, Kuffil, and Ariel Vivas invited on October 7. Hamas claimed that it was killed in a bombing of Israel in November 2023.
Aviva Sigel is fighting for her husband
Aviva Siegel was released in November 2023 and fought for the last year to release her husband Keith. , Actually, I was alive.
His release shows an important moment in the ongoing negotiations for the hostage that the terrorist organization is still holding. Keith and Aviva Siegel, a long -time resident of Kibz Kuffal Aza, were invited from home on October 7, 2023 when Hamas began a brutal attack on the Israelian community near the Gaza border. I did it. The couple was pushed into his car and took him to the Gaza area. AVIVA was released as part of the third round of hostage replacement, but Keith was confined until Saturday.
Since her release, Aviva has publicly talked about the hostage of suffering that endures Hamas POWs, explaining the inhuman state and psychological trauma given to the basement in the tunnel under Gaza. “We moved between 13 different places on both the ground and below, for 51 days I was there,” she remembered in an interview with Israel Hayom. “In one example, it was placed in a tunnel without air. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe.”
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Aviva explained the moment of pure fear when she and Keith believed that they could not survive. “I wish I would die first, so I wouldn’t have to see Keith died in front of me,” she said in another interview with Kang. “Every day was a battle for survival. There was no air or light. We were alive and buried.”
The couple has been living in KFAR AZA for over 40 years. So we raised four children and welcomed five grandchildren. The youngest daughter, Shia, had previously explained her parents’ love for Kibz, and said, “They moved there more than 40 years ago and fell in love with that place. I built a family. “
The release of AVIVA in November brought some rescue to the family, but their struggle was not over. For more than a year, she gave up to Keith’s return, participated in the rally, talked in front of government officials, and asked the world leaders to release all hostages. She traveled abroad, met Joe Biden and other high -level officials to seek more diplomatic efforts. “I will never stop fighting until all of us become home,” she declared earlier this year at a rally in Tel Aviv.
A few months after her release, Aviva was also a defender of a young woman’s voice that Hamas still holds. When I talked before the Knesset, she testified about sexual abuse and physical violence that endured women’s hostages. “These girls have become dolls for prisoners,” she said in an emotional speech covered by Harletz. “They are wearing tight clothes and have to endure humiliation. Humans should never suffer.
Physical and emotional scars
As Keith reunites with his family, their trials are not over. Healing of physical and emotional wounds that have been left for more than a year in breeding takes time to heal. “I’m grateful for Keith’s back,” Aviva stated in a statement to Channel 12. “But our battle is not over.”
The situation surrounding Keith’s release remains unknown, and Israeli officials continue to negotiate to secure other hostages. The Israeli government pledged to strengthen military and diplomatic efforts to guarantee that Israeli citizens were not prisoner of Hamas.
