Israeli-Serbian citizen Alon Ohel (24), who spent more than two years in Hamas captivity after the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, told Israel\u2019s Channel 12 that he spent a year and a half with his legs chained, and that he and other hostages were deliberately starved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey take away your freedom of movement by putting chains on your legs,\u201d said Alon Ohel in his first extended interview since his release on October 13 this year, as reported by the Times of Israel<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He says Hamas members treated him like a monkey. \u201cI would eat like a dog. You are no longer a person, you are an animal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ohel emphasized that even in prisons there is a system by which things function, but that he was not in a prison \u2014 he was in captivity. As he said, under such conditions anyone who is not mentally strong can go insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that Hamas members had food, but that he and the other hostages were starved. At one point, all he received to eat were dried dates. At that time, he notes, he looked like a skeleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou get used to starving and the constant aches in your body,\u201d he said, stressing that he spent hours just \u201clying like a corpse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alon said that the strength to endure came from videos of Israeli demonstrators who demanded that he and the other hostages be freed.<\/p>\n\n\n\nREAD MORE:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n