‘I left my good friends’: In videos shown in Tel Aviv, freed hostages share their stories.

Sitting on a couch next to a crocheted blanket, Adina Moshe introduced herself in a video as having been released from the captivity of Hamas.

On Saturday night, Ms. Moshe was one of the hostages who recounted personal stories in videos released publicly for the first time. While family members have shared accounts of the conditions they faced in captivity, including being denied adequate food, being squeezed into tight quarters and being forced to watch disturbing footage of the Oct. 7 attacks, this was one of the first times that some of the freed captives addressed the camera. Read more

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