Former hostage Tal Shoham recounted enduring 505 days of starvation, brutal beatings, and psychological abuse in Hamas captivity, where he survived on just 300 calories a day while preserving his humanity with fellow hostages and refusing to show fear.

Former hostage Tal Shoham shares his account from captivity: ‘Hamas paraded me, threatened me, but I wouldn’t kneel’.

Shoham describes brutal conditions in captivity, including starvation, psychological abuse and being held in dark, airless tunnel; struggling to maintain… pic.twitter.com/l8j6xS88Uy

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