Nili Margalit, 42, was taken from kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas's October 7 onslaught, which left around 1,200 people dead and saw around 250 Israeli and foreign hostages dragged back into Gaza .
Nili Margalit, 42, was taken from kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas 's onslaught. She was repatriated in a November truce between Israel and Hamas An Israel i nurse who was abducted on October 7 has said she was kidnapped by Palestinian civilians who joined the terror attack, before selling her to Hamas .
'They exploded plates, turned the house upside down and started a fire,' she told the weekly magazine. Two minutes later, the terrorists appeared in the bomb shelter built in her house. She hadn't closed the door. She says she was covered in a sheet and driven in a golf cart to the border between Israel and Gaza before being transferred to a car, which took her to Khan Younes - southern Gaza's largest city from which the IDF withdrew its troops this weekend.
Margalit wrote these down in English for Hamas. Days later, a black bag of pharmacy supplies arrived - but proved inadequate, with some prescriptions mismatched. 'I bugged them, doing it with what you might call a bit of good grace,' she said, recalling how she warned the captors that some of the hostages could succumb to their illnesses. 'That frightened them. They did not want these people to die.'
She was not aware that 75 residents from her kibbutz were taken hostages, and that 38 of them were kill, and she was told by the Hamas guards - usually four of them, she says - that Israel is trying to eradicate the Palestinians. The recovery of Elad Katzir's body brings to 12 the number of bodies of hostages which the army says it has brought home from Gaza during the war.The IDF said in a statement that 'the body of the abductee Elad Katzir, who according to intelligence was murdered in captivity by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organisation, was rescued overnight from Khan Yunis and returned to Israeli territory'.
'Their efforts resulted in the discovery of the body, which was then transported to Israel for further examination,' he said. 'Prime Minister, war cabinet, and coalition members: Look at yourself in the mirror and say if your hands didn't spill blood.' Campaign group The Hostages Families Forum said Katzir had been held alive for three months following his abduction.
Yacov Livne, the Israeli ambassador to Warsaw, said on social media that Katzir had dual citizenship with Poland.
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