“Dad, I am alive!” Israeli hostages begin giving glimpses of ordeal.

Doron Steinbrichr has pledged that she would not wear pink again when she made her first general comments In video After liberating it from more than 15 months in the families of Hamas in Gaza.

A year ago, it appeared in A video of hostages made by her kidnappers He wears a pale pink shirt. When a group of Palestinian series released Hamas last month, she was wearing her clothes In bright purple A follow -up suit and pale.

Mrs. Steinbreys, 31, said in the video, which appears to be author and sometimes smiling, that sitting in front of the camera returned her again to the difficult moments when her kidnappers in Gaza photographed her.

“This time, he was sitting comfortably on a sofa with my family watching me in a warm and enjoyable place,” she said. Trying to communicate that she was not broken, she said it is important for her to show everyone that “I am fine.”

Since families and sympathizers at home and abroad have made a campaign to release the Israeli hostages, most people know them only as faces staring at stickers. Now, with the release of 16 Israelis since January 19 under the ceasefire with Hamas, those painful faces come in videos, social media posts and data from relatives that provide lights of joy and comfort as well as freedom as well as hints of torment they have endured.

The short messages that they often sent were expressions of gratitude to all those who worked to release them and their appeals to not surrender until another hostage was liberated.

The urgency of that message became more clear on Saturday, when many Israelis were shocked to see the meager situation of the latest three hostages that were released: Eli Sharabi, 52; Or Levi, 34; And Wawad Bin Ami, 56.

Some relatives said that the hostages who were released earlier were deprived of food, and they were severely lost in weight and muscle mass, and rarely saw sunlight. Family members said that some of the hostages have at least an accidental arrival to the radio or television and heard or saw their relatives carrying out a campaign to release them, which helped them stay.

Colonel Avi Benov, the doctor and deputy head of the Israeli medical corps, told reporters that many of the hostages that have been recently released have spent the past eight months underground In Hamas tunnels In Gaza. Some of the hostages that were released in November 2023 described the suffocating moisture in the tunnels that made it difficult to breathe.

Colonel Benov said that women were recently released were “moderate hunger”, while some were still suffering from shrapnel in their bodies from the injuries they suffered on October 7, 2023.

This was the day when Hamas led an attack from Gaza on southern Israel, which ended with about 1,200 dead and about 250 people who recovered to Gaza as hostages. The attack sparked a 15 -month war, with Israel’s attack in Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroying lands.

Of the about 250 prisoners, the grades were launched during a week -long truce that later that year while some were killed in captivity. No more than 70 hostages have been returned yet, including at least 35 who are believed to have died, according to the Israeli government.

It is expected that a total of 25 hostages will be launched, along with the bodies of eight others, during the initial shooting for a period of six weeks, which entered last month.

They are exchanged for about 1500 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom were convicted of killing the Israelis. The Palestinians who were released, many of whom were seized without charge, say they faced harsh conditions in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.

Some Israeli hostages have been forced to appear in the videos filmed by their kidnappers in Gaza – the practice of rights gatherings I condemned as The inhuman treatment that can rise to the crime of war. Israeli officials called these forms of psychological warfare.

A few months ago, the Hamas military wing issued a statement claiming that the hostage had been killed and had blurry images appeared to show a corpse wrapped in a shroud. One shot was closely shown in a tattoo identical with one who belongs to Daniela Gilboa, one of a number of females Observer soldiers captured from a small military base Near the Gaza border.

But Mrs. Gilboa, 20, was released on January 25, days later, She was singing At a party formed a drainage for army students from Bellinson Hospital near Tel Aviv.

It was reflected on its prolonged Instagram plot mail On February 2. She said that her faith and her companions of Jewish rituals had passed it. She thanked her supporters for not believing the rumors that she was killed in Gaza.

Lerry Albaj, another one of the observation, She celebrated her twentieth birthday While healing in the hospital.

Mrs. Steinbsher was kidnapped from her home in Kafr Azza, a country community near the Gaza border.

In the video she released, its appearance contrasts sharply with the hostage videos made when it was pale, with blond hair again in a braid. Her hair is now dark and an accurate design in the shoulder bob, wearing black clothes, wearing a long necklace, dog brand, and yellow pin in solidarity with the hostages. She said she was no longer that person in videos from Gaza.

“I am Doron. I am 31 years old. I am no longer in the family of Hamas, and I am at home.”

The hostages who were released recently remained largely protected by the glow of the media and have not yet interviewed. Medical and mental health specialists say that maintaining their privacy is necessary for the long recovery process.

Footage issued by the hostage army Emotional reunification with close family members Give a sense of absence surrounding their return.

“Dad, I am alive!” Another editorial hostage, Rumi Gonn, 24, He shouted on a mobile phone After her mother did not reunite her on January 19.

Experts say that long families have caused physical and psychological harm, and that full rehabilitation will take time.

“We are walking on a very slow road,” said Professor Nawa Eliakim Raz, head of the returnees wing at Bellinson Hospital. “Of course, we see up and down. Every day is different.”

Some of the hosts returned with injuries from the attack on October 7. Emily Damari, 28, lost two fingers after she was shot in the hand and was also shot in the leg.

She is a fan of the Israeli football team, Mcabi Tel Aviv, and in one of her matches on Monday, a video message from Mrs. Damari was shown on a huge screen. she Thanks for the players and management and supporters To fight for its freedom.

Her mother said that Mrs. Gonn is still suffering from an arm injury and will need a complex surgery.

Jadi Musa, 80, was released, an agricultural expert who was kidnapped from his home in Nir Oz, a village near the Gaza border, on January 30, and appeared. Almost as soon as he returns to IsraelHe pledged to do everything in his power to rehabilitate his destructive community.

His niece, Evat Mita Micaoa, told the correspondents later that Mr. Moussa had been over the ground throughout his family, but he was often moved.

She said that she was closed in the rooms alone, as he practiced by calculating steps and photographing up to six miles a day, and kept his mind active with accounts and other technologies. He remained positive.

When I first met him in the hospital, reassured her, “I’m alive. I’m normal!”

“The unit becomes an enemy,” said Mrs. Machikawa. “He managed to create a routine that kept his mind.”