Horror conditions Hamas hostages like Emily Damari endured – from lice, buckets as toilets & living on half a pita a day
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HOSTAGES have endured horrific conditions at the hands of Hamas thugs during their 15-month nightmare. Freed hostages have previously revealed the harsh conditions they survived in Gaza included physical and emotional abuse as well as humiliation, lice and starvation.
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And as the first three hostages -including Brit Emily Damari - were released, there is no doubt they will need time to recover from horrors they suffered over their 470 days in captivity. Brave Emily was pictured smiling as she was released following her ordeal before she was reunited with her mum.
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The Spurs fan showed her bullet-ravaged hand missing two fingers after she was shot when she was snatched from the Kfar Aza kibbutz village on October 7. The fearless Brit put on a brave face despite the squalid conditions she suffered during her 15-month nightmare.
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Emily was kidnapped in her own car and taken into Gaza, after the terrorists shot dead her beloved dog Choocha in her arms . She was forced to use a bucket as a toilet and starved as captives were given half a pita bread a day to eat. Hamas hostages released in November 2023, revealed she had already lice as captives were rarely allowed to wash.
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They reported the level of sanitation was atrocious with big groups of hostages being forced to share a toilet with no water causing disease to spread. The fearless 28-year-old posted she is “the happiest person in the world” in the first Instagram post after she was freed.
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