Photo: Heidi Levine
A photograph of nine-year-old Ohad Munder is shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art after he was released from captivity in Gaza on Friday along with his mother and grandmother. They were captured by Hamas fighters on October 7.
JERUSALEM - They survived on rice and bread and slept as best they could on chairs and benches. At least one man tried to escape his captors when an Israeli airstrike caused the building he was in to collapse. The young boy kept a diary of his experiences.
The stories of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 are emerging slowly and piecemeal, as dozens of Israeli women and children and foreign workers have been released from Gaza as part of a humanitarian pause in the fighting.
Israel and Hamas agreed on Monday to extend the pause for two more days under a deal brokered by Qatar and Egypt that will allow the exchange of more hostages for Palestinian women and teenagers in Israeli prisons. Eleven Israelis and 33 Palestinians were released later on Monday.
(Washington Post)/JaV)
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