UTTER HELL
Hamas hostage forced to eat wet toilet paper to survive while ‘at least 10 men & women sexually assaulted in captivity’
Released hostages say children were burned on the leg so that they would be recognisable if they tried to run away
A HAMAS hostage was forced to eat wet toilet paper in a desperate bid to survive as he was held captive underground.
More than 200 people were kidnapped by the terror group as they rampaged across the border on October 7 before being kept in diabolical conditions.
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Aviva Klompas, who runs Boundless Israel, says she remains fearful for the 138 hostages yet to be released.
More than 100 hostages have been let out of captivity after enduring weeks in Hamas' grip.
Klompas, who previously served as director of speech writing for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations, said she has heard harrowing accounts of what innocent hostages suffered.
She told The Sun "We have to keep in mind that these were the people Hamas was willing to return, meaning presumably the ones who are in the 'best condition'.
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"There are accounts of starvation. There was a Filipino National who said he had to eat wet toilet paper in order so that he wouldn't starve."
Philippine hostage Jimmy Pacheco feared he wouldn't survive as he was given just half a pita a day and salty water during his six-and-a-half-week ordeal.
The caretaker, who is among the hostages freed, said he was left having to consume wet toilet paper to stay alive as he was held in a damp tunnel.
He was given a tiny amount of toilet paper when he was permitted to go to the bathroom - which he stashed in his pocket.
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Jimmy told CBN Asia: "I told myself there was no way I would survive because I have a history of kidney problems.
"It looked like we were 40 metres underground, and that’s why the walls were damp.
"I attached the paper I had saved to the walls, until it got wet.
"Then I put it in my mouth and ate it – and that way my stomach wasn’t empty."
Many hostages also suffered abuse at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
One doctor who treated some of the 110 hostages freed revealed at least ten women and men were even sexually assaulted.
Klompas said acts of physical abuse extended to children too
She added: "You have children who were burned on the leg so that they would be recognisable if they tried to run away.
"You have incidents of a little boy being held in solitary confinement for 16 days, a small boy. Can you imagine what that's done to his mental health?
"He was also forced, along with other children, to watch videos of the atrocities of the October 7th attacks, and when they cried they had guns held to their heads, and they were threatened.
"And it's account after account." There's also there was testimony today that came out in Israel that at least 10 of the people released were sexually assaulted."
Klompas has branded the response from the international community "shameful" as she urges for more to be done.
She added: "I don't think we quite understand the magnitude of the times that we're living in.
"What happened on October 7th defies belief. It was the single largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
"And aside from the enormous numbers - 1,200 people murdered, 240 people taken hostage - what we're learning about increasingly is the sheer brutality and just the absolute cruelty of what Hamas perpetrated predominantly against civilians.
"The response from the international community has been shameful, or silence which is equally shameful.
"And the magnitude of what we're experiencing means that this is going to be spoken about and talked about for decades, if not centuries to come."
In turn for the hostages freed, Israel has freed 240 Palestinian prisoners during the truce last month that saw the first pause in fighting since the October massacre.
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Israel has pounded Gaza with a total of 710 shells for every square mile since the beginning of the bloody war.
Its forces launched an assault in the south of Gaza on Tuesday in the biggest attack since the temporary ceasefire expired last week.
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