Bedouin Israeli hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, rescued from Gaza on Tuesday in an Israeli army operation after 326 days in captivity, was held for a number of months alone at nighttime and given little meals.
After he returned to Israel, Alkadi underwent a preliminary medical examination and met along with his household. Equally to different hostages rescued by the army or launched within the November change deal, Alkadi was then debriefed by Israeli intelligence on his kidnapping and the circumstances of his captivity.
Alkadi stated in his debriefing that he had been held alone in current months, reported Israel’s Military Radio. He stated that earlier on in his captivity, he was saved along with one other hostage whose id was not revealed within the report. That hostage died whereas in captivity with Alkadi, who stated in his debriefing that it was one in every of his breaking factors whereas he was held in Gaza.
Alkadi, 52, a father of 11, was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 when he was working as a guard at a packaging manufacturing unit at Kibbutz Magen, near the border with Gaza. Dozens of Hamas assailants attacked Magen that day, however after a seven-hour battle, members of the kibbutz managed to stave off the assault. Two members of the kibbutz have been killed within the preventing. Alkadi was the one individual to be kidnapped from Kibbutz Magen, possible as a result of he was stationed exterior the residential space close to the manufacturing unit — which was empty Saturday morning — at a distance from the scene of the preventing.