Israeli Hostage’s Harrowing Account of Hamas Brutality

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Moran Stella Yanai's life took a devastating turn on October 7 when she was abducted by Hamas terrorists. Her story, one of horror and resilience, underscores the brutality of her captors and the ongoing plight of the 125 hostages still held in Gaza. Speaking from her home in Beer Sheva, Israel, Moran shared her experience, surrounded by her art, jewelry, religious texts, and her rescue pets.

 

She was eventually caught by a group of terrorist, who live-streamed a video showing Moran begging for her life in a ditch. “This is one of the Jewish dogs,” a man narrates.

 

Moran, 40, was captured at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, where she had gone to sell her handmade jewelry. As Hamas gunmen attacked, she fled, traversing fields and desert for five hours while sending desperate messages to her parents, convinced she would die.

 

"What haunts her most are the firsthand accounts of rape from other female hostages, whispered to her in captivity. She holds their secrets, not divulging names to protect their privacy, and to not further endanger their lives."

 

Her initial encounters with her captors were marked by her desperate attempts to convince them she was Arab, using her limited Arabic and pointing to a necklace inscribed with her middle name, Stella, in Arabic. Twice she managed to secure her release, but she was eventually captured by a more organized group who beat her and stole her jewelry. In Gaza, her captors paraded her through cheering crowds, a nightmarish experience Moran described as the "biggest party" she had ever seen.

 

 

Moran's captivity involved severe psychological and physical abuse. She was moved from house to house, each time facing new guards. Though she was not sexually assaulted, she was haunted by the accounts of rape from other female hostages. The United Nations and the International Criminal Court are investigating numerous instances of sexual violence by Hamas militants.

Extremely harrowing piece in the @washingtonpost; an interview of Moran Stella Yanai:

"That was my private war against them (Hamas).... my soul, my mind"

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— Yaari Cohen (@YaariCohen) June 2, 2024

 

Throughout her ordeal, Moran used her empathy and resilience to humanize herself to her captors and avoid further harm. Despite the relentless psychological torture, including threats, falsehoods about her family's abandonment, and bombings around her hideouts, she focused on survival. Her physical condition deteriorated due to a fractured ankle, exacerbated by harsh conditions and inadequate medical care. Post-release, she was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome and is now undergoing intensive physical therapy.

"My friends are still in there and one of them was already murdered."

Moran Stella Yanai returned to the site of the Nova festival for the first time since October 7. She was abducted by Hamas and held for 54 terrifying and tortuous days in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ghhWUMjVjZ

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) February 22, 2024

 

Moran's release on November 29, part of a temporary truce where Hamas freed 105 hostages in exchange for a pause in fighting and the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, marked the end of a brutal chapter but the beginning of a long recovery. She lost significant weight, became half-deaf from constant explosions, and faced various health issues.

 

The moment of reunion of Moran Stella Yanai, with her family members at Sheba Hospital 

 

Moran continues to advocate for the remaining hostages, speaking at protests and meeting with international figures to keep their plight in the public eye. "I want my sisters and brothers out of this hell," she said, emphasizing the urgency of their release. Her story is a stark reminder of the inhumane treatment inflicted by Hamas and the ongoing suffering of those still held captive.

 

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Credit: Washington Post 2024-06-04

 

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[Bkk Brian]

Yet there are still people who believed none of this ever happened. So sad.

[Hanaguma]

She and others were "paraded through cheering crowds". Remember this next time some pearl-clutching leftie starts mewling about 'innocent' Palestinian civilians being caught in the crossfire of war.

[Neeranam]

7 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

She and others were "paraded through cheering crowds". Remember this next time some pearl-clutching leftie starts mewling about 'innocent' Palestinian civilians being caught in the crossfire of war.

You are showing, yet again, that you believe innocent Palestinians are fair game. You do know why Gazans dislike Israelis, or would you like a reminder? 

[Hanaguma]

3 hours ago, Neeranam said:

You are showing, yet again, that you believe innocent Palestinians are fair game. You do know why Gazans dislike Israelis, or would you like a reminder? 

The Israelis that LEFT Gaza 15 years ago? The Israelis in the kibbutzim on the Gaza border who opened their clinics to treat Gazan children who were sick and injured? Who gave jobs to Gazan men?  The mostly peace loving very left leaning Bibi hating Israelis who live as their neighbours? 

[Neeranam]

20 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

The Israelis that LEFT Gaza 15 years ago? The Israelis in the kibbutzim on the Gaza border who opened their clinics to treat Gazan children who were sick and injured? Who gave jobs to Gazan men?  The mostly peace loving very left leaning Bibi hating Israelis who live as their neighbours? 

You were the one making a sweeping generalization about Palestinian civilians as if there were no decent ones. 

Israel never left Gaza.

Who remained in control of Gazan borders and air space?

Who restricted the movement of Gazan people, causing them great hardship?

Who continually made military incursions into Gaza?

 

 

[Korat Kiwi]

And who are harbouring the Hamas dogs of war? 

[Bkk Brian]

4 hours ago, Neeranam said:

You are showing, yet again, that you believe innocent Palestinians are fair game. You do know why Gazans dislike Israelis, or would you like a reminder? 

Why did the Gazan civilians celebrate innocent hostages being captured? Why did some go into Israel themselves and captured hostages to then sell them to Hamas?

[Jingthing]

8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Why did the Gazan civilians celebrate innocent hostages being captured? Why did some go into Israel themselves and captured hostages to then sell them to Hamas?

Barbarians.

[Hanaguma]

31 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

You were the one making a sweeping generalization about Palestinian civilians as if there were no decent ones. 

Israel never left Gaza.

Who remained in control of Gazan borders and air space?

Who restricted the movement of Gazan people, causing them great hardship?

Who continually made military incursions into Gaza?

 

 

If there were decent Gazans, they would tell the IDF where to find the remaining hostages. And also where to find the remains of Hamas.  But strangely, that hasn't happened. 

 

Israel DID leave Gaza, and the IDF were the ones to forcibly evacuate the last Israeli civilians in 2005. After which the Gazans proceeded to destroy all the valuable tools and equipment the departing Israelis left behind. 

[Neeranam]

50 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

If there were decent Gazans, they would tell the IDF where to find the remaining hostages. And also where to find the remains of Hamas.  But strangely, that hasn't happened. 

 

Israel DID leave Gaza, and the IDF were the ones to forcibly evacuate the last Israeli civilians in 2005. After which the Gazans proceeded to destroy all the valuable tools and equipment the departing Israelis left behind. 

So all Gazans are not decent according to you and Israelis can do no wrong. Take your blinkers off. 

 

 

[it is what it is]

15 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yet there are still people who believed none of this ever happened. So sad.

 

really? you must read some weird stuff because i've never seen it written or anyone in the media state this event didn't happen. maybe stay away from conspiracy theory sites. 

[Neeranam]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Barbarians.

Who said Gaza’s civilians cheered, it only said a cheering crowd, probably hamas terrorists. 
 

[Neeranam]

According to some here who believe all the Israeli lies, all the female hostages were raped, yet they didn’t rape this girl, I wonder why that is…

[Hanaguma]

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

According to some here who believe all the Israeli lies, all the female hostages were raped, yet they didn’t rape this girl, I wonder why that is…

You might want to ask the rapists how they chose their targets. One answer is that many of the rape victims were killed on the spot after they were defiled by the Hamas barbarians. 

 

Nice straw man though. Nobody to my knowledge has said ALL female hostages were raped. 

[Bkk Brian]

9 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

really? you must read some weird stuff because i've never seen it written or anyone in the media state this event didn't happen. maybe stay away from conspiracy theory sites. 

Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel, report

https://aseannow.com/topic/1324354-only-one-in-four-british-muslims-believe-hamas-committed-murder-and-rape-in-israel-report/

[Bkk Brian]

8 hours ago, Neeranam said:

According to some here who believe all the Israeli lies, all the female hostages were raped, yet they didn’t rape this girl, I wonder why that is…

Do you believe what this girl said about her horrifying experience and what the other female hostages shared with her? Or her being Jewish leads you to not believe her automatically? 

 

[Bkk Brian]

9 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Who said Gaza’s civilians cheered, it only said a cheering crowd, probably hamas terrorists. 
 

They cheered all hostages brought into Gaza that they saw.. I take it you don't remember Shani Louk, her dead body paraded around Gaza like a trophy in the back of a truck, while civilians including children celebrated and spat on her lifeless contorted half naked corpse. Take a long hard look at how she used to be if you can. I won't post the videos, everyone's seen them except you apparently.

 

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[Njoku]

On 6/4/2024 at 9:32 AM, Hanaguma said:

She and others were "paraded through cheering crowds". Remember this next time some pearl-clutching leftie starts mewling about 'innocent' Palestinian civilians being caught in the crossfire of war.

There not lefties, there extremist religious right wingers....using religion to justify it all...

[Hanaguma]

1 minute ago, Njoku said:

There not lefties, there extremist religious right wingers....using religion to justify it all...

Yeah, the actual cheering Gazans are definitely extremist religious zealots- not sure where they fit in the political spectrum. The pearl-clutching lefties are the ones in G7 countries who should know better and have very selective knowledge of world events. 

[Njoku]

17 hours ago, Neeranam said:

According to some here who believe all the Israeli lies, all the female hostages were raped, yet they didn’t rape this girl, I wonder why that is…

Just about every discussion I have witnessed over this war people like this guy just ignore, shut down, bring up, deflect, the realities, if one 10 or all where raped it was rape, if one is murdered, 100 or 1000 its murder, so what is it that guys like this really have a bee in there bonnet over? plz tell?

[Neeranam]

6 hours ago, Njoku said:

Just about every discussion I have witnessed over this war people like this guy just ignore, shut down, bring up, deflect, the realities, if one 10 or all where raped it was rape, if one is murdered, 100 or 1000 its murder, so what is it that guys like this really have a bee in there bonnet over? plz tell?

Because of all the lies from Israel, like babies microwaved etc. 

Even Biden lies about it, he said he saw photos of beheaded babies, which was a blatant lie, and the grown ups in the Whitehouse admitted such. 

 

[Hanaguma]

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Sounds similar to 1000s of Israelis chanting "death to Arabs" and "mohammed is dead" 

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-nationalists-chant-death-to-arabs-in-annual-jerusalem-day-march-through-palestinian-area-of-the-city

Perhaps similar. Refresh my memory, did the Israelis also display the bodies of rape and murder victims while they were chanting? Did they spit on them and desecrate them? Just curious.

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[Njoku]

8 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Because of all the lies from Israel, like babies microwaved etc. 

Even Biden lies about it, he said he saw photos of beheaded babies, which was a blatant lie, and the grown ups in the Whitehouse admitted such. 

 

I just came here in the off chance to see what's going on, cant believe how you guys get winded up over it, unless you have middle eastern or Eastern European backgrounds or heritage I struggle with the hatred some of you guys show towards jews.

 

There as bad as each other, Jews a persecuted people should know better and the Arabs of Palestine as stupid as they are getting led by radicals using religion to justify.

 

So what is it that's upsetting you guys? The killings of so called innocent women and children or just anti Jewish and US?

 

Or you believe that Israel has no right to the land  known as Israel?

 

We all know about the displaced Arabs who refused a 2 state settlement but we dont hear of the 900,000 Jews thrown out, pushed out encouraged to leave from Iraq Iran and Syria and several other Arab and non Arab countries in Africa.  

 

I will tell you where I stand, as far as the war against Hamas is concerned they need too be left in ruins, this is the political and armed Hamas, pretty sure in the end the average Gazan unless a AK 47 is pointing at there head wont vote or support Hamas again even the dumbest of dumb would have realised they Hamas has no concern for the population, just bough pain and misery, they dont talk about it in the press much but early on they did it was shown support for Hamas was becoming on the nose for Gazan's, interviews from actual Gazan's...ho the lies, well IDF dressed up as the average garden verity of Gazan's, with kids kart and wife tagging along...

 

Hamas's charter is all you need to know, they have stated clearly what they will/want to do, so negotiating with them is a waste of time, the basis of land rights is bull<deleted>ttttt, since the world began its the spoils to the victor, borders have changed hundreds of times through out Europe and the rest of the world, its the way of the world.

 

As for the Jews well pretty sure this ultra right wing government will get throw out eventually when there is an election, they of course should not only stop but withdraw settlers from the West Bank, in fact should withdraw completely and just leave them alone, you know if they wont come to the party on a two state solution just walk away and stick up a wall...they did it in Gaza, but then you will get them firing missiles at you...so what to do?

 

In the end they, meaning the US England and France, they are 3 of the 4 biggest munitions and arms manufactures in the world along with Russia dont really care how long it goes on for, anyone thinking they are proactive in ending this or any other war is delusional, its about money, the bottom line, Iran must have a bulging munitions export program as well...its about money money money, if anyone really cared a solution would have been put in place long ago, there is little will from the backers of Arabs and Israel to end it, the simplest solution is stop arming and funding both sides existence, give it 20 ys.....

 

So you know I hold the US responsible for both this Middle East and Ukraine war, but they are not alone, most Nato countries are in on it, and of course Putin knew all along as most dictators like Hamas know if you have a diversion your power base is safe...so that's the other factor, Power....driven men who need the glory...... 

 

I state once again, they are as bad as each other, and they are both stupid, led by the nose into conflicts..

 

 

 

 

 

[transam]

On 6/4/2024 at 5:15 PM, Neeranam said:

You are showing, yet again, that you believe innocent Palestinians are fair game. You do know why Gazans dislike Israelis, or would you like a reminder? 

But, you are at one with terrorists, you dismiss the cruelty passed out by Hamas and indeed Palestinian civilians. 

 

Most of your stuff is a smoke screen, you just don't like Israel....🤔

[transam]

On 6/4/2024 at 9:18 PM, Bkk Brian said:

Why did the Gazan civilians celebrate innocent hostages being captured? Why did some go into Israel themselves and captured hostages to then sell them to Hamas?

He will not answer that.................🤗