Hamas Branded the Jewish Children and Caged the Female Hostages | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Isaac | 18 Kislev 5784 Friday, December 1, 2023 | JewishPress.com
Female hostages were kept in cages, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group set up in the wake of the attack, revealed on Monday.
Children were branded in case they escaped, according to Yaniv Yaakov, the uncle of the brothers Or, 16, and Yagil, 12, who were freed on Nov. 27.
Every child that Hamas took was taken on a motorcycle, and they took each child and put their leg in front of the exhaust pipe, which caused a burn to mark the children so that in case they ran away or fled, they could find them, he said.
A Thai hostage who was released told Israel s Channel 12 that the Jewish captives were beaten with electric cables. Israeli hostages were treated worse than the others, he said.
Eitan Yahalomi, 12, a dual Israeli-French citizen, was released on Monday, 52 days after his abduction. His aunt, Deborah Cohen, told France s BFM TV that he was forced to watch footage of the massacre.
Every time a child cried there, they threatened them with a weapon to keep them quiet. Once they got to Gaza, all the civilians, everyone was hitting them. & We re talking about a child 12 years old, his aunt said.
Maybe I was naïve, but I wanted to hope that they [Hamas] were treating him well, she said. I was wrong. They are monsters.