Gadi Moses was disputed with Hamas on “who owns the earth” in captivity

The hostages released Gadi Moses would have debates with his Hamas kidnappers on the property of the country of Israel, had spent the last two months of his captivity with two Thai hostages and knew the release of hostages in the first agreement, Walla learned on Saturday morning.

Throughout his captivity, during which he was mainly alone, Moses sought ways to relieve his boredom. This understood to speak to his Hamas kidnappers, to discuss Islam and political questions, and to engage in arguments where each party said that the Earth “was theirs”.

At one point, his kidnappers asked him: “Where do your parents come from?” When he replied, they said to him, “Come back there.”

His kidnappers also said that their people lived in the country of Israel before the Jews, to which Moses replied: “We had people in these places 3000 years ago. What are you talking about?”

After receiving books on Islam and other political questions, he had a hard time reading them without glasses – he therefore demanded that his captors find it for him, and they conformed.

Without electricity, Moses fell asleep at sunset and woke up before sunrise around 3 a.m., he heard Israeli bombings, some of which are nearby.

“It was very scary for him,” said his son Yair in an interview with Walla.

During most of his 482 days in captivity, he was alone in a small room. Around the past two months, he has been detained with Thai workers who had been kidnapped from the border area of ​​Gaza.

“Finally, he had other people with him. They tried to speak a little and mainly to be together, communicating through gestures of the hand and the eyes,” added Yair.

“Most of the time, they treated him with respect. When they ate, they ate with him. He was not afraid, with the exception of a few moments. Most of the time, it was just to boredom – he does nothing. Al Jazeera. He knew destruction in Gaza, “Yair said.

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His kidnappers even told him that buildings in which he had remained during his captivity had been destroyed.

Moses heard of the agreement with the hostage in November 2023 and knew the names of those who had been released.

“He was excited for them that they came out. Of course, he wanted it too, but he was happy for them,” Yair said. “He came back in good shape that we could not have imagined it. We knew that he was a strong man. Mentally, we were not worried – physically, we were.”

Not recognizing his son at first glance

“The emotions are intense,” Yair continued. “My father did not recognize my beard – it was the first thing he noticed. He had not seen me on television, only the other family members. He asked me:” May ‘Is the beard? “I told him that I had not cut my hair or shaved until he came back.

The niece of Gadi Moses, Efrat, shared that “you feel the tension slowly dissipate from your body, in particular knowing that there are still others that must come back. It is a process, and we respect His private life.

“I ran in the corridor, and Gadi was incredibly emotional-a moment of pure exaltation,” she said about their reunion. “Now, the whole country understands what we meant when we said how incredible it is. It represents the essence of Israel. These are people who build and will continue to build our country – we cannot exist Without them.

“He watched television and listened to a radio,” said Efrat. “His kidnappers told him when I was interviewed on television. They recognized my earrings and thought that I was his daughter. Despite all the joy, we must remember that there are still hostages which must return to the house and that the rehabilitation process is very long.