Matan Angrest, 22, an IDF soldier who was kidnapped from his tank during the Oct. 7 attack, was confined in a small dark tunnel for the last four months. His mother, Anat, said that her son underwent “very severe torture” during the first months of his captivity. “He remembers being beaten so badly that he lost consciousness,” she told Israel’s Channel 12 News. “They covered him with black sacks and dragged him away.”

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 24, was reunited with fellow hostage Evyatar David, 24, upon their release, having being separated a month ago after enduring daily physical and psychological torture. The childhood friends were forced to watch a group of hostages get released in February, in a notorious Hamas propaganda video and in an act widely panned as psychological torture.

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David, who was subsequently filmed digging his own grave in a separate video showing him skeletally thin, was among the hostages “fattened up” by his captors in the final days of their captivity despite concerns that could prove fatal.

Twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 28, who were abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, were held separately and completely cut off from the outside world throughout their time in the Gaza Strip, although they could hear Israeli soldiers near them.

Omri Miran, a 48-year-old father of two, was held in nearly two dozen places in Gaza, above ground and in tunnels, his brother Nadav told Ynet. The shiatsu massage therapist would cook food and played cards with his captors, his brother said.

Hostage survivor Eitan Mor, 25, was also abducted from the music festival. His family refused to take part in the rallies calling for the release of the hostages. His father, Tzvika, said that a Hamas leader told him Eitan would be released first since his family was not protesting for him.