A freed Hamas hostage has unmistakable that the terrorists again and again attempted to pressure her to transform to Islam presen she used to be being held captive and demanded that her crowd pay a ransom in trade for her leave.
Moran Stella Yanai, 41, who used to be amongst the ones snatched from the Nova Tune Competition all the way through the Oct. 7 bloodshed, advised the Israeli N12 community that her kidnappers additionally promised to leave her faster if she transformed religions.
“Almost daily one of them would enter the room, saying ‘Would be better for you to be a Muslim woman,’ and once the terrorist sent one of his comrades to get a head covering to put on me, and show me what it means to be a Muslim woman,” Yanai mentioned.
“As a woman, my biggest fear is being sold. That someone would forcefully marry me and that I will have to convert to Islam.”
The jewellery dressmaker, who ended up being held hostage in Gaza for 44 days, mentioned the terrorists tortured her crowd as smartly via looking to extort them.
“It is a part of their mind games, they are not playing just with us, but also with our families,” Yanai mentioned, including, “it does not end in our death or kidnapping, they continue to torture and abuse our families.”
At one level, she mentioned the Hamas brutes interrogated her with questions on her father for a complete while — together with how a lot he earned and what worth he can be prepared to pay to have her excepted.
Yanai discovered upcoming that they’d despatched her father a photograph of her and threatened to homicide her if he didn’t cough up the ransom cash.
“He went into shock,” she mentioned of the pace her dad began receiving the ransom messages.
“He received a picture of his daughter and is told that if he didn’t pay money within an hour, they would start killing us one by one,” she persevered.
“I try to imagine my father in this situation, being told that in an hour they will kill your daughter if you don’t send money. I think about my father, and what goes through his mind – it could break his heart. My parents experienced trauma no less than I did.”
Yanai used to be a few of the first lot of hostages freed via Hamas extreme November as a part of a short lived cease-fire with Israel.
All over the trade, Hamas freed 105 hostages in trade for 240 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails.
Yanai spoke out as ceasefire talks persevered this hour in Egypt with minute signal of a concrete leap forward.
There are nonetheless 109 Israeli and international hostages being held captive via Hamas within the wake of the Oct. 7 terror assault.
