Aviva Siegel: Keith spent 6 months alone in captivity, was kicked, starved and threatened at gunpoint

Speaking at Hostages Square, former hostage Aviva Siegel reveals new information about the captivity of her husband Keith, whom Hamas released two weeks ago.

“Out of the 484 days he was in Gaza he was alone for six months, lying on a mattress on a floor in a very small room, starved,” she says. “The only food that went into his mouth was moldy or burnt pita bread unfit for humans to eat.”

“One day, a terrorist who was with him came up to him, kicked him in the ribs with dull force, spat on him, and called, ‘You dog,’ for no reason, just because that’s what he felt like doing,” she says.

“One day, a terrorist pointed a gun at him and said: ‘Now I’ll shoot and kill you,” she adds.

“Try to imagine what you would feel…. What would you have done in that same moment,” she says.

She was speaking to thousands gathered at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to mark 500 days since October 7, 2023.

“I asked Keith, ‘What did you do to make him do that to you?’ Keith told me: ‘Nothing.’ The terrorists turned Keith into nothing,” she says. “Everything a person needs, sometimes even going to the bathroom.”