Held hostage by Hamas militants for 129 days, Israeli recounts the horror to Staten Island JCC crowd

Held hostage by Hamas militants for 129 days, Israeli recounts the horror to Staten Island JCC crowd

In October 2023, Luis Har was abducted near the Gaza border by Hamas militants.

Freed hostage says division among Israelis 'strengthens Hamas'

Shem Tov said his captors would gloat and describe how Israel “was destroying itself from within.” By World Israel News Staff Freed hostage Omer Shem Tov, along with his mother, Shelly, told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that division within Israel strengthens Hamas. Recounting his 505 days in captivity, Shem Tov said his captors would show him videos of groups of Israelis opposed to each other and showing division “in the most extreme ways pos…

Omar Shem Tov met with the president at his residence, and said: "When they broadcast television in captivity, they showed the division in the people, and they showed it in the most extreme way possible." The president replied: We have brothers who are 40 meters deep underground, how can we breathe like that? We have to see them at home."