India, March 21 -- One of the Israeli hostages released by Hamas told the UN Security Council of his 491-day ordeal in captivity, and called on the United Nations to make efforts to bring all the remaining hostages home.
Taken from his home in Kibbutz Be'eri on 2023 October 7, Eli Sharabi was held underground, chained, starved and subjected to psychological and physical abuse.
"I have come back from hell," he told ambassadors. "I was kept mostly underground in Hamas terror tunnels.held captive in the darkness, isolated from the world by Hamas terrorists."
"For 491 days. I held on to hope, I imagined the life we would rebuild, I dreamt of seeing my family again," he added.
However, only when he returned home last month, he learned the tr...