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Alon Ohel says fellow hostage Eli Sharabi ‘was like a father to me’
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In a preview of an interview set to air tomorrow on Channel 12, released hostage Alon Ohel speaks about his time in Hamas captivity and his bond with fellow hostage Eli Sharabi.
Ohel says Sharabi spent much of their time in captivity speaking about his family.
Unknown to both of them, Sharabi’s wife, Lianne, and their daughters, Noiya and Yahel, were killed on October 7. He only learned of their deaths after his release.
“He was like a father to me,” Ohel says in the interview, becoming visibly emotional. “What an amazing father they had.”
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