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Former hostage Matan Angrest says he was electrocuted in captivity
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Former hostage Matan Angrest says he was tortured and electrocuted during his two-plus years in Hamas captivity.
“For eight hours in a row, I sat and had to tell them things, during which I knew that it wasn’t just about my own well-being but the security of the country at stake. There are things that are in the realm of ‘die and don’t tell,'” Angrest tells Channel 12’s Uvda investigative program, indicating that he was exposed to highly classified intelligence during his service in an elite tank unit.
Angrest recalls opening his eyes for the first time after he was kidnapped from his tank, which was hit by an RPG on the Gaza border.
He says he found himself in a home in Gaza with over half a dozen Palestinians sitting in front of him.
They began asking him questions about where he served and where he was kidnapped from, but the questions were in Arabic and he didn’t understand. His captors then got angry and started beating him while his hands and feet were tied.
He says he couldn’t move his arm because it was burned so badly.
“Someone came to me with two cables and put them on my wound and just turned (a machine) on. I could feel myself being electrocuted. I screamed in a pain that is impossible to describe,” Angrest says.
The Times of Israel Community.