An Israeli hostage feed after being held by Hamas mentioned his captors improved his remedy after President Trump’s return to the Oval Workplace was confirmed in November.
Omer Shem Tov was held in captivity for greater than 100 days and told CNN he was being deliberately starved whereas in confinement.
Shem Tov mentioned after Trump gained, he acquired extra meals and that his captors “handled me higher, stopped cursing me, stopped spitting on me.”
He instructed CNN anchor Bianna Golodryga that Hamas terrorists had been afraid of a second time period from Trump and had been rooting for Vice President Harris to win her bid for the White Home.
“They needed Kamala to be elected; however as quickly as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he desires to deliver the hostages again residence. So, instantly the way in which they handled me modified,” Shem Tov mentioned.
“So if it’s the quantity of meals — I can say this, that when Trump turned president, the way in which they handled us modified — for me, personally. That is what I felt,” he added.
Whereas imprisoned, Shem Tov mentioned he noticed a tunnel crammed with meals, confirming he was deliberately being starved. By the point he was launched, he’d misplaced greater than 50 kilos.
“One time I did ask one terrorist about it, and he instructed me due to the military, there isn’t a meals. However I used to see them eat. I knew they weren’t skinny as me, you realize,” Shem Tov instructed CNN.
“One time I keep in mind I requested to go to the restroom, to the lavatory, they usually took me out. I used to go each three days to the lavatory. And I keep in mind me strolling by one other room within the tunnel and seeing a giant quantity of meals, cheese and bread, big quantities. So I used to be being starved. There is no such thing as a query about it,” he continued.
Shem Tov famous that in his time imprisoned, his “religion in God turned very sturdy.”