Right before the Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi was returned by Hamas, his captors paraded him around. They interviewed him before releasing him. Asked him what he was most excited about…
He told them he was most excited about seeing his wife and daughters again. Some of the guards snickered openly.
They knew something Sharabi didn’t know — Hamas had already killed Sharabi’s wife and two daughters on the Ocrober 7 massacre. They were dead, and they were knowingly hyping up an already destroyed man even further, to increase the psychological blow later on when he’d return and find out the truth.
They knew exactly what they were doing. And yet, the cruelty of it still amazes me. For well over a year, this man was held captive in dark and humid tunnels, other hostages around him dying in bombardments or being killed by their captors. And Eli Sharabi kept himself going, where others had already given up… because he knew he’d see his family again some day, if he survived.
They never removed the illusion. They never informed him. In fact the “interview” he did, right before his release? It was scripted. As in: he was told to tell the camera this specific story. They told him to keep it a-political. To just talk about his family, his daughters, his wife. His happiness at the reunion.
This was Sharabi with his wife and his two little girls, just shortly before disaster struck and they were senselessly slaughtered for merely existing as Jews in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And this is Sharabi when he returned from captivity and was informed of the truth. That he wasn’t going to see them again. That it was all just a lie, a cruel joke played on him by his tormentors… he completely broke down. What you see here, is a man’s soul leaving his body. He’s utterly shattered beyond belief…
A lot has been said in recent months and years of the suffering of the Palestinian people. Let us not forget in all this the abject and earth-shattering cruelty of Hamas, and the victims of the October 7 massacre — nearly 1200 people murdered, many of them women and children. Unarmed and defenseless. Little kids, elderly people and even babies. And Eli Sharabi and many parents like him will never again hold their babies.
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