Rescued hostage tells president captives in Gaza experiencing immense ‘suffering’

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi tells President Isaac Herzog that the suffering for captives is immense and everyone else still held there must be brought home.

In a recording of their conversation released by the president’s office, al-Qadi says he is “very grateful to the State of Israel, to the army.”

Al-Qadi, a father of 11 from the Bedouin city of Rahat, calls for the return of all the other hostages, saying “people are suffering there, every minute… do everything to bring people home.”

He says he experienced “24 hours without sleep, people are suffering, suffering, you can’t imagine it.” He says when he heard “Hebrew outside the door, I couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe it.”

The IDF, he says, is doing “holy work, risked their lives, did everything to rescue me.”