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Parents with four young women’s hostages released from Hazas captivity in Gaza, they told the BBC on how their daughters were abused, including starving, intimidated and threatened to cook and clean.

They recounted that these waves were held in underground tunnels and buildings, witnessing physical abuse and were made to participate in the videos of Hamas propaganda, including, in one case, faking his death.

They said that women found strength through the sharing of stories, drawing and maintaining a diary.

No woman gave interviews to the media from their release, and their parents say they are full of what they endured and still appear. There are also the things I can’t talk about for fear that they could still be able to put in Gaza in Gaza.

Three of the four women whose parents talked with the BBC were women’s soldiers kidnapped with Hamas from Nahal Oz near Gaza, 7. October 2023. Years.

Access to hostages on food and their treatment of male guards varied in 15 months, their parents said. They were moved between locations, rarely seeing sunlight.

“It was very different between the places left – it could be a good tunnel, it could be a very bad tunnel,” said Father Agam Berger, 20, Soldier AGAM Berger, 20, A soldier who was in Nahal oz.

Some of the places had good food, some had “very bad food … they just tried to survive,” Shlomi Berger said.

“They (and their kidnappers) had to run away from one place to another because they were there in the war zone. It was very dangerous to be there,” Orly Gilboa said, whose daughter Daniella also abducted from the base.

When Daniella was watching Edition three men’s hostages last week – Who came out thinly and pulled out, “she told her mother,” If I was released two months ago, I would probably look like them. “

“She diluted, she lost a lot of weight through captivity. But in the last two months they gave a lot of food to get a weight,” says Mrs. Gilboa.

Other parents also reported a significant weight loss. Meirava Leshem Gonena took Hamas from the New Music Festival.

Roma, 24, was released in the first week of truce in January – lost “20% of his body weight,” her mother says.

Ms. Gilboa says that it is the hardest thing she endured saw the video that suggested that her daughter was killed. Her kidnappers poured powder on her to look like she was covered with plaster, as if she was killed in an Israeli military strike.

“I think everyone who saw that he believed it, but I just said that he couldn’t be,” she said.

The war launched Hamass’s unproven attack on Israel 7. October 20. October 20, when Gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages.

More than 48,230 people were killed in Gazi, according to the Hamas-Run’s territorial Ministry. Approximately two-thirds of Gaza’s buildings were destroyed or damaged, estimated the UN.

So far, 16 Israeli and five Thai hostages have been exchanged for more than 600 Palestinic prisoners held in Israel in Israel under an elevated contract that started in 19. January.

Mr. Berger says his daughter, Agam, threatened her kidnappers and testified physical abuse while in captivity.

“Sometimes they tortured other women’s hits in front of his eyes,” he says, referring to the attack on the Amita Soussan, former hostage that was released in November 2023. years.

Mr. Berger says his daughter told him how they kept watching armed men, “he played all the time with his rifles and their hands.”

He says that the male cropors treated women with “great disrespect”, including forcing the cleaning and preparation of food.

“It really tortured her. She’s a girl that if he has something to say, he’ll say it. And sometimes she told them what they were thinking about them and their behavior,” he says.

He adds that in small resistance, Agam refused to perform any job on Saturday, the Jewish holiday day. The men kept they accepted it.

They were also not allowed to speak loudly.

“When Agam came (back to Israel) she wanted to talk all the time … After one day, she didn’t have a voice because she said so much,” Mr. Berger says.

Yoni Levy, whose daughter of Naama, 20, was taken from the army, says that he was sometimes held in the locations where he was TV or radio.

Once, Naama saw his father talk on TV. “He gave her a lot of hope and optimism … that no one would forget her, and we will do whatever it takes to get her out of this hell.”

He says for Naama, Hamas Attack on the Army Base was “he was much more traumatic than the detention.”

“It can change, but at this stage, we think this is the most tragic day she talked about,” says Mr. Levy.

The images of Naam show her that day and other female soldiers in bloody clothes surrounded by armed men in the room in the base before they were forced into the vehicle and taken to Gaza.

Three female soldiers whose parents talked with the BBC among five of all women of unarmed military units in Nahalu Oz free in the first round of truce.

Members of the unit, known in Hebrew as Tatzpitaliyot, have the task of watching the border of Gaza and seek signs of something suspicious. Survivors and relatives of some of those killed that day say they were warned in months for Hamas to prepare for the attack.

A few days before the attack 7. October Daniella was at home on the break of the service. Then she told her mother, “Mom, when I get back to the army, it will be a war.”

“I didn’t think that would be such a war and of course my daughter would be born as a hostage,” says Mr. Gilboa.

Ms. Gilboa and Families Two more observers who talked to the BBC say they join calls on request in what happened.

They say that their daughters are worried about the conditions of those who are still in Gaza and called on the interruption of the campfire.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Leshem Gonen says he still learns what happened to her daughter Roma.

She was shot at the New Music Festival, and his mother says she did not treat properly, leaving her “open wound in which she could see the bone.”

“It’s something we can know about what he’s talking about. Other things, I think it’s going to take time.”

Mrs. Leshem Gonen says Roma described her release in the first week of truce as “frightening” and “scary.” She was surrounded by attackers and crowds. But the moment of their gathering was “so powerful.”

The parents also described how their daughters found ways to pass in captivity every day – through drawing, performing notes or sharing talking to each other.

“They wrote as much as they could, every day – what was happening, where they moved, who were guards and such things,” Mr. Berger says.

While in captivity, young women dreamed about things they wanted to do when they came home: getting a hairstyle and eating sushi.

Daniella pulled a butterfly with a word “freedom” while in captivity – she now has that tattooed on his hand.

They adapt to life in Israel, and their families say they store recovery step by step.

The moment of the re-appointment with his daughter is still blur, says Mr. Levy, but he remembers the emotions.

“The feeling was that … I’ll take care of you now, and everything will be fine. Dad is here. That’s all. And then everything was quiet.”

Additional Naomi Scheber-Ball Reporting