October 7 anniversary brings witness testimony of Hamas brutality

Precisely two years in the past, Hamas terrorists stormed the Israeli border from Gaza, killing younger households dwelling in a small kibbutz and searching down younger folks attending an out of doors music pageant. The attackers killed greater than 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages.

Fox’s Trey Yingst was on the scene simply days after the Beeri bloodbath. That is what he noticed:

“The kitchen flooring are stained with blood. Individuals have been at house on the time. It was early Saturday morning when Hamas militants burst into their houses. The troopers right here inform us they discovered our bodies that appeared to have been executed. Individuals with arms tied behind their backs, moms holding their babies, our bodies decapitated. Pure horror on this small city,” Yingst reported.

TWO YEARS AFTER HAMAS’ OCTOBER. 7 MASSACRE, 48 HOSTAGES – DEAD AND ALIVE – REMAIN IN CAPTIVE

Keith Siegel, accompanied by his spouse Aviva (on his left), steps out of a navy helicopter on the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Heart (Ichlov) on February 1, 2025. (Getty Photos)

There are nonetheless 48 hostages in Gaza. Twenty are believed to be alive. Aviva Siegel was held for 51 days, whereas her husband, Keith, was held for greater than 400 days.

“Once they got here in to kidnap us, they shot us. And one of many bullets hit Keith. And it did not hit me as a result of I used to be fortunate, but it surely might have been totally different. And we have been taken underground and we simply had no air to breathe. And I actually felt like these have been going to be my final hours of my life,” Siegel instructed Fox Information on the second anniversary of the October 7 assaults.

She remembers arriving in Gaza and seeing Palestinian households cheering and booing the wounded hostages.

Israeli troops are seen among the many rubble of buildings destroyed after Palestinian terrorists attacked components of southern Israel, in Be’eri, Israel on October 7, 2023. (Nir Keidar/Anadolu through Getty Photos)

“Everybody was simply ready for us. They knew we have been coming. And we have been instantly taken underground. And I will always remember the picture I’ve in my head of the terrorist telling me to go down this ladder. It’s totally slender to go underground. I am shaking. I will always remember his smile,” Siegel stated on the second anniversary of the assaults and the beginning of her captivity.

ISRAEL ELIMINATES GAZA TERRORIST WHO PARTICIPATED IN OCT. ATTACK ON KIBBUTZ, HOSTILE GARDEN BIBAS

American-Israeli citizen Keith Siegel is strolling towards his launch from Hamas terrorists throughout a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in February 2025. (Omar-Al-Qattaa/AFP through Getty Photos)

Her husband Keith was held in solitary confinement for six months.

“I used to be moved 13 instances in 51 days whereas I used to be there. Whereas Keith stayed there for 484 days, we have been tortured and starved. They ate in entrance of our eyes. I misplaced 20 kilos. Keith got here house trying like a skeleton. He was simply so skinny. I could not stroll after I obtained again. I used to be so sick,” Aviva stated.

Tens of hundreds of Gazans have been killed within the aftermath by the Israeli military, which now controls 80% of the Gaza Strip. Israel says it isn’t focusing on civilians, however greater than 90% of Gaza has now been destroyed.

Keith Siegel meets his household at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. (GPO)

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“I witnessed the Hamas terrorist touching the women and doing no matter they wished. I witnessed the Hamas terrorists beating one of many ladies who have been with us and threatening her that they’d kill her simply because they thought she was mendacity,” Siegel stated. “For me, it was like being murdered. Not with the ability to assist them and never with the ability to assist Keith when he was being tortured was the worst factor I might expertise. It was worse than after I was being tortured. And I used to be being tortured. I had my hair pulled. I used to be pushed. I used to be starved. I used to be laughed at. I used to be threatened. I went to hell.”