The reports concerning the condition of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7^th come from Jewish doctors, so naturally, the Usual Suspects and other pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas people — “people” being a term I am using loosely here — won’t believe them and will dismiss them.

Doctor who treated freed Hamas hostages describes physical, sexual and psychological abuse

By Leslie Stahl and David Morgan | Third Sunday of Advent, December 17, 2023 | 9:30 AM EST

Dr Itai Pessach. Photo via CBS News.

About 100 Israeli hostages, kidnapped during the deadly Hamas raid on Israel, have been released after more than 50 days in captivity. Dr. Itai Pessach (director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv), whose team interviewed and examined many of them, told “CBS News Sunday Morning” the freed hostages were brought to the medical center whether they wanted to come or not.“We thought they would need a buffer from that time in captivity, underground, in the dark, with very little food, with a lot of psychological stress,” he said. “We have to remember that these people have not been around since October 7.”

For some, they did not have a home to go back to – and it was Pessach who had to inform them. “One of the largest challenges that we had is, how do we break the bad news?” he said. “They look around the room, and they see that someone’s missing. That was something we had to prepare for.”

Dr Pessach did express sympathy for the Palestinian Arabs who are suffering as well, but that won’t matter.

Except for a brief cease-fire, there’s been an almost-constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza, much of which has been pummeled into wreckage, with half of the population facing severe hunger.

Pessach said he believes both Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from PTSD: “When they undergo events such as this, this will take its toll, and it doesn’t matter if they’re on this side or the other side.”

And all of this is the responsibility of the idiotic Palestinians who started this war. Of course, the pro-savages activists won’t accept that.

He also believes that television pictures of the freed hostages that suggested they had not been physically abused were misleading. “I think it was very deceptive,” said Pessach. “There’s not a single person that came back that didn’t have a significant physical injury or a medical problem. On top of that, some of them were getting medication, to look better than they actually were.”

There were also stories of hostages being branded^[1]Hyperlink added by D R Pico; not in the original. (a common practice inflicted on Jews and other prisoners of Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust), and of being sexually abused. “Yes, we did see signs of branding,” Pessach said. “We definitely saw signs of being handcuffed. We did hear and see evidence of sexual abuse in a significant part of the people we have treated. We also heard evidence – and that was one of the hardest parts – of abuse against those that [are still there], both physical and sexual.”

In deliberately taking hostages, Hamas were preparing to have them to use for propaganda purposes, to mute the Israeli response — they had to know that they couldn’t beat the Israelis — and as bargaining chips to get Palestinian criminals released from Israeli custody. Hamas wanted to trade the innocent for the guilty, and have succeeded to some extent. One can only hope that Mossad somehow covertly microchipped the released ‘militants,’ to track them and target Hamas in the future.

But, with every incentive not to harm the hostages seized, the Palestinian savages couldn’t help but do so anyway.

The story continues to let us know that there was preplanned and structured “psychological torture” inflicted on the hostages. It’s simple: the Palestinians are not the Western civilized people the left like to believe, but a cultural type with values and motives that are simply outside of the ability of the ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ supporting left to comprehend.