US President Donald Trump says he was surprised to learn from the released hostages he met with earlier this week that not a single one of their Hamas captors treated them with kindness.
“I said, ‘Did you see anybody in there [who] was kind out of the hundreds of people that you were seeing [from] Hamas? Did some of them wink at you and say, ‘Don’t worry, you’re going to be okay, or give you a piece of bread?’ ‘No,'” Trump recalls while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office.
“I said, ‘Were there any people that were like kind? I was shocked. The answer was nobody. There was nobody. Just the opposite. They’d be slapped and punched. One man broke his ribs. He couldn’t breathe for a month. It was brutal,” he says, appearing to reference the testimony of recently released hostage Eli Sharabi.
“I was so surprised. Because you think there’d be a couple of people that would be kind, that would say, ‘You’re going to be okay.’ But they had none of that. It’s pretty amazing,” Trump says.
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