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One of which joins me in studio, Eli Sharabi. Eli was held hostage for 491 days in Gaza, author of a memoir you simply have to get called Hostage. Eli, welcome to the show. It was nice seeing you on Fox and Friends yesterday, and I'm glad you're okay today. Thank you very much.
It's m my big honor to be here. When did you realize it would be important for you to write this book? I think after my visit in the UN and my testimony there, Um People approached me and said, I have to write um all this down and that all The world will know uh my story. Your brother lost his life. His body is still being held in captivity.
Your wife and your daughters were killed. And you're taken hostage. Um How do you put in perspective? What you've been forced to experience through no fault of your own.
Well, um, you know. It was um Hell of a time in in All these 491 days, October 7, as we experienced that, and after that, the captivity. And all the announcement after that about Yossi, my brother, and um And of course my wife and my daughter just after my release and I'm just true they have been slaughtered. Did you know that when you were taken? No, no, they were fine.
They were all calm in very calm in our house. We were sure the British passports uh will protect them. Um But probably this animal doesn't have any boundaries. And they killed them, uh murdered them. uh five minutes after my uh I was kidnapped.
So how old were they, sixteen and thirteen? Sixteen and thirteen, no ya in the hell, yes.
So and you said you could still remember the terror that they felt when you were being taken? Wow, just to see their feels in their eyes. I can't forget this um this fear, this uh this look. And I promised myself the day I was going to be released, I'm going to take Leanne, Noya, and Dehel. out of uh this uh conflict area and Going back to London.
And sadly, you didn't have that point. But going through your captivity, thinking that they were alive probably motivated you to get out. If you had known this, it probably would have been even harder for you to survive. Yes, it's all mean lie you know, life And thanks God nobody told me differently.
So it's kept me alive just to survive for them and see them again and I can hug them again. And I imagine um the day of my release uh thousands of times that they're going to run towards me and And we can be together again.
So now you want to tell your story. Do you fear, as I do, that so many people forgot about October 7th and they're focusing on Gaza and they don't focus on what happened that led to the attack on Gaza, a place that almost every Israeli said, we have no interest in, we have no interest in going in, but after October 7th, you had no choice. You worry that people have lost perspective. Yes, uh it's the maybe it's the main reason to write this uh testimony. uh that nobody will forget, not october seventh, not what we you know, all this time in this in the safe room uh waiting for the army.
Um the brutality and the cruel uh that uh the terrorist um no show to the hostages. And you know, on October 7 I was more than 70 kilos. And I was released uh less than forty-four kilos. And that's about ninety pounds? Uh something like that.
Um How m how often did you eat? Um we ate one meal a day in the last six months in captivity. We ate one meal a day, uh a bowl of pasta, one and a half pita bread that was very, very dry. Uh and they had lots of food. They had lots of food.
They ate four or five times a day. Um in front of you. In front of us. We've seen the dozens of boxes every week getting in from the humanitarian aid. Um So they they had enough food.
What does that make you think when people say the people are starving, the the Israelis cut off aid, and yet you you're seeing Hamas eat like kings? Yes, um, well This is them. They don't care about not b especially not about us, but they don't care even their own population, the Palestinians that everybody's shouting for them and all this. Hamas doesn't care about them. What makes you think that?
But what We've seen they they stole from them their their uh humanitarian aid. Uh and they said to us they're upstairs they're um starving uh and they're waiting for the food and In the meantime, we see them eating five times a day. Do you think the the Do you disseminate between the Palestinian people and Hamas?
Sorry again. Is there a difference in your view of the Palestinian people and Hamas?
Well, I don't know, but the the the Palestinian people, uh, when civilians when we call uh and people want to Um to identify them as uninvolved um All the people I've seen Uh tried to lynch me. Uh even Hamas terrorist was afraid that somebody will recognize that uh their Israel is in this house or uh in the tunnels and they will come in and kill them as well.
So so to be clear, so Hamas is actually protecting you from the Palestinian people. If they knew there was a hostage there, they would just overpower Hamas, grab you and kill you. They said that all the time they were scared about that. Um Well, the the first stop in Gaza, um they uh took me away from the um uh my um Um the guardians uh of uh Hamas terrorists uh and start to lynch me. It was kids on top of me, start to hit me with their shoes.
Um So I I can't say they're not they're uninvolved. How how hard was it on you physically? Were you beaten? Were you starved? We were humiliated daily basis.
We were chained twenty four seven for four hundred and eighty-five days, just a week before my release. They took it off. Um We were beaten from time to time. They undressed us almost every two weeks and searched on our body. and look for things, I don't know what.
And um And of course the starvation was the worst thing. Where did they keep you? Do you know? Where did they keep you? Um but uh I think most of the hostages are there in the central of Gaza.
Um And it's a place that the uh the IDF is being ver very careful not to attack.
So you think the IDF knows roughly where these hostages are? Yes. Right. And are most of them in in and around Gaza City? Most of them.
Most of them. In tunnels. Yes, of course.
So you were kept above ground for a while though, right? Only the first fifty-two days. I've been in the Palestinians' family's house. The family were in the first floor. We've been in the second floor.
Um That's it. And how did you get down? Through a mosque? There was a door in a mosque, they got you you went downstairs? How did they get you into the tunnel?
Oh, they just we w we went to one day they let us know that we are leaving the house. Uh so we walked twenty meta uh twenty sec uh m um minutes. Um Through the f the first mosque we've seen, we got in. Um and took us to a side room and opened this door. Yes.
So, what does it tell you? As you know, people should understand this. They put the entrance to these tunnels in mosques and schools. and in hospitals. Yes.
Because they think that, well, if the Israelis bomb this, they'll look like the bad guys. Yes. The the first well, we got in from a mosque and we went out uh from uh uh a school Um And um and this is the second tunnel we've been. We're uh underground of a hospital.
So, um yes. That's this is the place that um They dig uh their tunnels because they know the IDF would be very, very careful not to bomb there.
So, you worry especially about another captive that you left behind, a 24-year-old Alon Ohi, right? Alon Ohio was with me, yes.
So, tell me about him. Oh, great kid. Great kid. Uh very naive. Um and, you know, frightened for his life.
Very talented pianist. amazing guy with great values. Uh his parents uh raised him very very well. And I think after an hour of talking with him, we found so many in common between us and so Aye, Alec. Ah.
You are a good person. You're like a father for him, yes.
So, and he kind of leaned on you, and then you had to tell him at one point, or it became clear that you were getting out, and he wasn't. How tough was that?
Well, it was very tough. It was Maybe one the the one of the toughest moments uh I've been there. Um We hugged each other, we we cried, we said to each other that uh he can I pr that I'm um I'm sure he can survive without me. Um, he did a lot, you know, to understand how to what we what is needed to survive.
So um, so now all the time the f one of the first calls I've done two calls in the same day of I was released. One was to Lian, uh my wife's parents. Uh to England. Uh that was very hard uh conversation. Uh and the second one was uh to Alon's parents.
uh to tell them that this uh her kids their kids uh is fine, he can survive, and they have to have all the faith in the world that they will see him one day. And we understand he's still alive, right? He is still alive.
Well, last time I've seen him, it was months ago in this uh video. Um um I was very happy to see that. And I'm uh quite sure we will I will see him soon. Eli Shurabi is here. His book is now out.
It talks about what he was living through in his 491 days as a hostage. And this is marking the second year since the October 7th attacks. Why do you think you were chosen to be released?
Well, they said to me, it's because of my age. How old are you? I'm today I'm fifty three years old, so Back then I was fifty two, almost fifty three, and I said um like the um the old one has coming now out and And next will be the youngs, and we were sure it will be in a week. I promise that to Alon, that I'll fight for him and will be soon home. And unfortunately, uh sadly is already there two hundred and forty days more than uh since The day of my release.
We're going to have a few more minutes with Eli. Eli, go grab his book, tell the true story and get people a perspective on what this year does, what happened on October 7th, and not forget it, to have a perspective on why Israel is even forced to fight in Gaza to begin with. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. Don't move. Hi, everyone.
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has always been in the past. Hamas. And what they are pushing back on They're saying they're willing to give up the hostages, but then they're also saying, well, we don't have complete control of them. Other groups have summoned hostages from the very outset. In fact, true.
Why don't we ask a former hostage who has a book called Hostage out today, Eli Sharabi? He was held there for 491 days in Gaza, and he put together his personal account. He lost his children. He lost his wife in this attack. He lost his brother, whose body is still being held in Gaza.
But he wants to tell the story so people don't forget, marking the second year since those attacks in 2023. Eli, what do you think about what General Keene just said? Hamas says we don't really have track of all the hostages. I hope they are not saying the truth. I think did they say that that they are going to release all the did they agree to release all the hostages?
And they cannot say that if they don't know where is everybody. Do do you think they do know? Was there no answer? They do know. They have control about everything in Gaza.
Um I hope it will not have be a problem with that. Otherwise, probably the finish or the agreement will not be accepted.
So you said that these guys never expected this type of response from Israel and that they cry themselves, they're crying and have panic attacks because they know the next day could be their last? Yes. Um they were sure this uh war after october seventh, twenty three, uh it will finish in in a month or two. Uh they came to us and asked us why why it continue, why uh Netanyahu wants uh to kill them, uh why doesn't let them to be in the government anymore. Um And yes, you know, they've been they used to cry to their pillows at night, uh try to do this uh quietly, but we heard them um very good.
And um Have panic attacks from time to time, shaking, fainting. their uh situation wasn't very good. Uh they Counted um their friends, uh, their fighters, um, their terrorists with that with them. Every uh day they count uh something like a hundred of them that uh have been killed with the uh you know, um with this confrontation with the Israelis. Do you believe the numbers that sixty seven thousand are dead?
Maybe, I don't know, but probably most of them are not uninvolved. I want you to hear what this mayoral candidate, Zoram Amdani, said about October 7. Two years ago, Hamas carried out a horrific attack, killing more than 1,100 Israelis, kidnapping 250. I mourn these lives and pray for their safe return. In the aftermath, Prime Minister Nenyan, when the Israeli government launched a genocidal war, a death toll that exceeds 67,000, with the Israeli military bombings, hospitals, and schools into rubble.
Every day in Gaza has become a place of grief instead, has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for their families. This must end. The occupation and our apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities.
Do you agree with his description? Not at all. I'm not going to argue with him But um it just If you can tell me how you can um uh fight with uh terrorists. that um uh hiding behind his own population and um running with kids uh alongside them that the IDF will not uh bomb them. Um How can you d how can you fight with them without uh people to get hurt?
Um And the genocide war Was in October seventh. Uh that didn't come from uh from Hamas. And Eli, what sustains you today with these horrible images fresh in your mind and still no end to this conflict, even though we hope it's close? What sustains you today? What drives you?
Um My motivation that the hostages will come back. These people cannot you cannot hear their voice, so I'm their voice. Um And for their um for their families. Um Forty-eighths. Uh still there.
Forty-eight uh hostages remained in uh Gaza Strip. Held by Hamas. their um families life um You know, that's not It's not the same anymore. We need to bring them back home and start to heal our trauma. And if people want to understand what truly happened, pick up Eli's book.
If you want to support somebody who's keeping the cause alive, it's called Hostage. Eli Shirabi, so glad you're okay. Hopefully, we have good news soon. Thank you very much. I hope so.
Thanks for telling your story.
