For two years, the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have been the embodiment of the intense trauma the militants’ horrific October 7 2023 attack wrought on Israeli society. Some 250 people were seized and herded back to the strip, while 1,200 were killed. The hostages endured brutal conditions, kept deep in Hamas’s network of tunnels while Israel bombarded the territory. Some were tortured and starved, others executed, as the captives became the militants’ prime source of leverage in its negotiations with Israel.
两年来,哈马斯在加沙扣押的人质,一直体现着该激进组织2023年10月7日发动的可怕突袭对以色列社会造成的巨大创伤。那天有1200名以色列人遇害,另有约250人被劫持到加沙。在以色列轰炸加沙期间,被扣押在哈马斯地道网络深处的这些人质忍受了残酷的生存条件。一些人遭受酷刑和饥饿,另一些人则被处决,这些人质成了哈马斯在与以色列谈判中的主要筹码。