’60 Minutes’ shows reunion between former hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel with Agam Berger

CBS’s “60 Minutes” shows a reunion between former hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel with released captive Agam Berger.

The three of them were held together in a Hamas tunnel. They were seven in total when they were together in a small, cramped tunnel. Aviva was released after 50 days in November 2023, at which point Keith and Agam were also separated.

“You couldn’t stand up. [There was] no room to walk around. Only if we needed to use the toilet, we were allowed to get out of this niche,” Keith recalls.

“The first day they were with us for a few hours, and then they left us. We said, ‘If we need help, what do we do?’ And they said, ‘Come to the stairs and shout for us and we’ll come.'”

Keith says he was relieved when Aviva was released in November 2023, but later saw how she was mobbed by hostile Gazans during her transfer. “I wasn’t sure Aviva made it home alive… This was very stressful.”

When he was finally released in February, Keith says he was told by his captors that he needed to wave and thank Hamas during his release ceremony.

“I waved to the audience. I did not say, ‘Thank you,'” he recalls, adding that he had felt anxious that something would go awry at the last minute and that he would not be released.

Discussing the strong bond he formed with the other hostages he was with, Keith says they all looked after each other physically and emotionally.

Embracing Berger, Aviva says she kept smiling throughout their captivity and that it gave all of them a great deal of strength. She recalls how she and Berger used to hold hands and look into each other’s eyes in order to try and mitigate the joint fear.

Aviva also shares how Berger and fellow hostage Liri Albag cheered Keith up during one particularly dark time of their captivity.

“Most of the time Keith cheered us up,” Berger notes.

“When it was tough for one of us, all the others helped,” Keith says.

“There was a very, very intense bombing. Agam was especially afraid. [I asked her] if it was okay if I were to hold her hand. I held her hand,” he recalls. “She helped me, and I helped her.”

Keith uses the interview to call on the Trump administration, the Israeli government and the mediating parties to get back to the negotiation table in order to renew the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.

“It’s urgent, and every day that this goes on is just more and more suffering and more and more possible death and psychological devastation,” he says.