'Our Life Is Gone': Ex-Hostage Couple Exhanged Letters While in Hamas Captivity
Arbel Yehoud endured severe abuse and isolation during 482 days in Gaza, maintaining hope through brief note exchanges with partner Ariel Cunio, who was held 738 days.
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'Our life is gone': Ex-hostage couple exhanged letters while in Hamas captivity
Arbel Yehoud and Ariel Cunio started dating in 2018. Five years later, on October 7, they would be kidnapped from their home in Nir Oz by terrorists, taken into Gaza, and separated.
Freed hostage Arbel Yehoud breaks silence: 'I tried to end it three times'
Arbel Yehoud speaks about her suicide attempts, her decision not to reveal the horrors of captivity until partner Ariel Cunio was freed, his collapse after their reunion, the letters that sustained them and why, after Romi Gonen’s interview, she says, 'I’m still a closed suitcase'
Freed Hostage Arbel Yehoud was sexually abused 'almost every day in captivity'
Freed Hostage Arbel Yehoud was sexually abused 'almost every day in captivity' Arbel Yehoud, an Israeli woman held hostage in Gaza for 482 days after being abducted on October 7, revealed that she was sexually assaulted "almost every day in captivity" and attempted to take her own life three times during her ordeal. Speaking in an interview with Israeli Channel 12's Ulpan Shishi news program, Yehoud, 30, described prolonged physical, psychologi…
Arbel Yehud Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted in Captivity: "I Tried to Take My Life Several Times"
The survivor of the captivity told "Ulpan Shishi" in an interview that she was sexually assaulted "almost every day in captivity" and tried to end her life three times. She said she was held in solitary confinement, starved, and suffered prolonged physical and mental abuse. "There were moments when I thought this was the only way out of it."
Captivity survivor Arbel Yehud told the Daily Mail that she experienced daily abuse and attempted suicide. She said it was her love for her partner Ariel Cuneo that kept her alive in Hamas captivity.
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