Freed hostage says she met Hamas leader in a tunnel, was kept in dire conditions

A 72-year-old woman held captive by Hamas for nearly 50 days told Channel 12 Wednesday that she was held at length in a dark, humid tunnel where she met Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar and helped pass the time with an informal lecture series by her knowledgeable fellow hostages.

Adina Moshe was taken captive from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. She was freed in late November.

Sinwar visited Moshe and a group of fellow hostages deep underground, she said.

“Hello. How are you? Everything OK?” Moshe said Sinwar told them in the Hebrew he had learned during a long incarceration in Israel. She said the hostages bowed their heads and did not respond. Another visit followed three weeks later, she said.

Moshe said terrorists raided the home she shared with her husband, David, who was shot in the leg. They snatched her out from the window of her house’s safe room and another terrorist went back in to shoot her husband dead, she said. Before being killed, he blew her a farewell kiss, she said.