Hamas forced a child hostage to watch footage of the terrorist group’s rape and slaughter of Israeli households on Oct. 7 whereas in captivity, in accordance to a latest interview with a 12-year-old boy’s aunt after his launch. Â

Eitan Yahalomi was launched on Monday as half of a multi-day lull within the combating as half of an settlement between Israel and Hamas that formally got here into impact final Friday. The terrorist group held the boy hostage for greater than 50 days.

According to the settlement, Hamas will launch at the least 10 Israeli hostages a day in alternate for triple the quantity of Palestinian prisoners held on terror expenses earlier than the Israeli army resumes operations towards the fear group within the Northern Gaza Strip.

In a Tuesday interview with the French media BFM, Yahalomi’s aunt, Deborah Cohen, mentioned Gazan residents beat her nephew when he arrived within the metropolis as a hostage. She additionally described Hamas terrorists utilizing their rifles and threatening to shoot the kidnapped kids after they cried.

“I needed to hope that he was effectively handled, however it seems that he was not; they’re monsters,†she mentioned. “Now that I do know that, I’m frightened. His father continues to be there, and there are 160 individuals who haven’t but returned.â

Yahalomi’s father was injured in a shootout with Hamas terrorists earlier than they captured him and took him to Gaza, in accordance to the report. While the boy was initially taken hostage alongside together with his mom and two sisters, his household managed to escape, whereas Yahalomi was taken to Gaza on a moped.

During her captivity, Cohen mentioned Hamas forced her nephew to watch movies of the fear group’s assault on southern Israel final month, when the terrorists murdered 1,200 individuals and injured hundreds of others. Hamas additionally took about 240 individuals hostage throughout its assaults

Like The Times of Israel reported in an article up to date Wednesday, Hamas launched 30 kids in the course of the short-term ceasefire, however 9 stay in captivity.

One of the hostages is 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, alongside together with his brother, Ariel, and his mother and father, Yarden and Shiri. The outletreported on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces mentioned Hamas had transferred the household to one other Palestinian terror group after it kidnapped them.

As The Christian Post reported earlier this month, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews hosted a non-public screening on the Israeli Embassy in Washington, displaying the atrocities dedicated by Hamas on October 7.

The footage proven to attendees got here from physique cameras worn by Hamas terrorists, safety cameras, social media posts, cellphone cameras and first responders.

In the primary set of clips, Hamas militants are seen breaking by way of the border, and after infiltrating Israel, the terrorists start capturing at vehicles driving alongside a freeway. The footage then confirmed the terrorists dragging the lifeless and bloody our bodies out of the bullet-riddled automobiles. Another clip confirmed a terrorist making an attempt to use a farming instrument in an try to decapitate a dull physique.

Other video clips confirmed Hamas militants capturing at contributors of the Supernova Music Festival, which resulted within the homicide of greater than 300 individuals on the occasion. Some clips additionally confirmed bystanders making an attempt to flee by way of a close-by subject as Hamas terrorists fired at them.

A separate video confirmed first responders arriving on the scene of the pageant, wading by way of piles and piles of corpses in search of survivors. The first responder, who recorded the video, continued to stroll across the pageant grounds, asking any survivors to give indicators of life. At one level, he checked behind a bar, solely to discover extra corpses.Â

Hamas militants additionally broke into individuals’s properties, with footage from a house safety digicam displaying a father and his two younger sons making an attempt to flee their house, however the father was killed by a grenade.