Former Israeli hostage opens up about his time in captivity



Yagil Yaacov spoke about his terrifying ordeal while he was held hostage for 30 days.

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36 comments

  1. It was a cultural exchange. He might even have tasted authentic Palestinian hummus for the first time

  2. ABC has ounce again shown their biased news coverage. This was click bait. You learn nothing about the hostages

  3. So ABC News conveniently omitted the part about how he was treated in case the public can compare it to the kids locked up in Israel! You guys do understand why no one really trusts you anymore, right?

  4. Let's pray for these poor hostages, their families and of course their rescuers, the brave IDF soldiers and all of Israel and the Jewish people everywhere in JESUS name, Amen!

  5. I oppose Hamas and pray the hostages come home safely, and I also oppose killing children. Do you?

    In just over 3 months, Israel has killed roughly 10,000 Palestinian children. Can you imagine how big of a pile of children’s bodies that would be? And IT’S GETTING BIGGER EVERY DAY. If you support what Israel is doing, then that is what you are supporting.

    Please watch this part of the ICJ genocide case against Israel (30 minutes):
    youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6IYp0BErg

    Israel has also maimed &/or orphaned tens of thousands more children & destroyed the homes of nearly 1 million children. And now Israel is killing these children with starvation, dehydration, & disease, in addition to bombs, by continuing to deliberately limit aid. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen saw proof during his recent visit. Watch interview:
    youtube.com/watch?v=7hyMVz9mEhE

    Israel claims that all of this horrific death and suffering is necessary to beat Hamas and insure Israel’s security – but that’s not true. Please read and share this article explaining the way to destroy Hamas that Israel has been ignoring:
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-israel-can-beat-hamas-without-killing-more-innocent-marwan-saleh-qe5tc

    The thousands of Palestinian children that Israel is killing & making suffer are just as innocent as the 36 Israeli children Hamas killed on 10/7, and the roughly 100 Palestinian children Israel has killed every year on average before 10/7, including 43 Palestinian children killed Jan-Sept 2023 (names and details available at BTselem.org).
    And the many killings of Palestinian children in the months and years before October 7th are indisputable proof that this tragic conflict did not start on that day.

    And please watch this video of Miko Peled, a former Israeli special forces soldier and son of an Israeli general who fought in the 1948 war, explains how this conflict really began with the massacre and ethnically cleansing of Palestinians in 1948. Peled is also the grandson of one of Israel’s founders, Avraham Katsnelson (7 mins):
    m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMTQ36F2SI

    Israel stole the homes and farms of over 750K Palestinians in 1948, over 300K in in 1967, and over 250K since then, often massacring women and children in the process to “encourage” people to leave. They were left with nothing and forced to to live in the squalor of refugee camps like Gaza for the rest their and their children’s lives.

    And here are 12 great videos of Jewish scholars, journalists, and soldiers explaining the truth about the Israel-Palestine conflict. They have no reason to lie and are like the white American abolitionists and civil rights activists of our time. They are the ones telling the truth. In addition to helping save lives and promote equal rights, sharing these videos will also help fight antisemitism by showing that many Jewish people are trying to stop Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, and brutal apartheid.

    1) Jewish Israeli Holocaust & Genocide scholar, Professor Raz Sega, explaining what genocide is and why he calls what Israel is doing, “textbook genocide” (16 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5YOctHHccM

    2) Holocaust survivor, Dr. Gabor Mate, explains how this genocide is different from others in history (12 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6pBNjE1ntI

    3) Award winning Jewish Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy explains why Israel is in fact an apartheid state (7 minutes): m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQ-BC1EcUU

    4) Jewish Israeli activist documents how illegal Israeli settlers terrorize and ethnically cleans Palestinians in the West Bank (2 min): m.youtube.com/watch?v=llhFCqEuVD0

    5) Jewish American scholar, Noam Chomsky, 2018 interview describing what Gaza was like due to Israel’s blockades since 2005 (10 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoC7sRNkrlI

    6) What Israel means by “human shields” and “trying to avoid civilians”, by Jewish Israeli journalist (4 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWU1UJhpdc

    7) Head of Israeli human rights organization, BTselem, explains why they call Israel an apartheid state (17 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aM8TL2xxg

    8) Israel’s apartheid and continuous settlement expansion, explained by Dr. Avi Shlaim, a Jewish Israeli Historian & IDF veteran (9 minutes): m.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKoxT6ZRog

    9) Jewish Israeli Professor of History and former Israeli soldier, Dr. Ilan Pappé, explains how he disproved the official narrative of Israel’s founding in 1948, and proved that it was started by Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to create a sustainable Jewish majority (12 minutes): m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCkI80l6EvU

    10) The ethnic cleansing has continued until today, by prominent Israeli historian, Dr. Ilan Pappé, who was a soldier in the 1973 War (2 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=PDV9KT48adc

    11) Former Israeli soldier explains how he controlled the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank (8 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBIZkI025Q

    12) Jewish American journalist debunks Israel’s most gruesome claims about the atrocities of October 7th and explains Hamas’s plan and evidence that the IDF also killed many Israeli civilians that day (14 mins):
    m.youtube.com/watch?v=-7vKzhd2Wac

    Go to m.youtube.com/@IsraelPalestine101 to find more great videos like these, of Jewish and Israeli scholars, journalists, and soldiers with firsthand experience, explaining the truth about this conflict.

  6. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

  7. I stand with israel! 🇮🇱

  8. from another site: Genocide of 2.3 million people, 70% women and children is not news for ABC, NBC, CBS. Some mention on PBS. True?

  9. I can’t believe this kid winning a war is much more important than freeing some hostages

  10. So they were not being tortured, and raped?

  11. Matt Gutman is no journalist….just a mouthpiece spreading BS worldwide.
    Whatever happened to the good old days when opinions were taboo, reckless and foolish.

  12. Keep your opinions to yourself ABC. Your destructive opinion is yet another reason to cut you out of the loop completely. Obviously you don't know much about negotiations with liars and murderers and knowing the objectives of hamas so……. STFU!
    EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36

  13. Sound like manufactured journalism 😂 by zionist ABC

  14. what about the hundreds of Palestinian children being held in prisons for years by the zionists

  15. "Answers Revealed

    What has brought us to this world?

    The question has haunted many a soul

    Worldly gain is often mistaken for the goal

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    But fortune and power prove short-lived

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    Most people on this earth came from above

    To find the Way and one day return

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    Seize the day, for the Ark will soon set sail

    Our past lives were all for today

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    March 30, 2016

    *

    This World Is Not Our True Abode

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    April 13, 2016"
    Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin III, from Falun Dafa teachings)

  16. It's Time to Prepare Your Kids & Grandkids for Global Warfare the US/UK/EU Elites and Governments want! Tell them to Cancel their Goals & Dream and fight their Endless Wars! AS THE WORLD IS SUFFERING FROM INFLATION DUE TO ALL THE WARS AND NOW A WORLD REFUGEE CRISIS, that is coming to the US Borders!!!!

  17. OUR US/UK/EU Governments & Western Media Outlets want DEATH & DESTRUCTION Across the World, Wasting OUR Tax Money! Democrats & Republicans, from the Bushes, Clintons, Obama, Bernie Sanders to Trump & Biden All LOVE to Fund Endless, Senseless Wars! From Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Now Israel-Palestine… next China, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, India-Pakistan, West Africa! Arming & Funding Terrorists across the Planet like Hamas, which Netanyahu has been Funding with US Tax Dollars for Years or Neo-Nazi Regimes in Ukraine, to Al-Queda and ISIS… to Khalistani Terrorists against India, all Funded by Western Nations' Tax Money to Destabilize Nations and Cause Wars for their Invasions. NEVER About PEACE!

  18. nobody cares about israelis

  19. Did he enjoy authentic Palestinian hummus and not the counterfeit Israeli variety?

  20. ABC Propaganda ….. God bless this young man and his family.

  21. It's clear now without a doubt that Palestinians are Hamas and Hamas are the Palestinians, there's no difference whatsoever.

  22. Told ya’ll the Palestinian families were helping Hamas hold the hostages.

  23. Where are the interviews of the parents of dead children from palistine. Remember a couple of years ago the Israeli army shot a young Palestinian boy for fun? They are still doing that and the media ignores and comtinues to fund murders of women and children saying that hamas uses them as a sheild…. Nobodys stupid, they claim to have some of the best millitary. Dosent sound like it. It sound evil as isrealis yelling racial slurs to black people.
    https://youtu.be/dPxv4Aff3IA?si=aKThMqnc7uJsg6OH

  24. The isrealis did everything right, gave Palestinians official positions within the Israeli government, gave Israeli citizenship to Palestinians, granted LGBT rights to its citizens, brought in thousands of foreign refugees, even gave Hamas/PLO another chance, and then it all comes down to nothing as they where attacked and now being slandered and dragged through the mud by their allies and their own citizens, well no more mister nice guy huh Israel? The kiddy gloves come off and the isrealis we know from the bible come to the light and fight to win.

  25. Turkey’s uncritical backing of Hamas is one reason why it, unlike Qatar and Egypt, the two other Middle Eastern states with links to the group, has not played a role in efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the freeing of hostages.

    To explore this further, please click the links below:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcP1_ZD1_yY

  26. It’s unfortunate for innocent people that the leader of Israel is currently viewed by the world as the new Hitler

  27. [C] Peace worldwide [F] Peace worldwide [C] Peace worldwi[G7]ide

    [C] Peace world[C7]wide [F] Peace world[Dm]wide [C] Peace world[G7]wi[C]ide.

    [C] What do we want? [F] Peace Worldwide [C] When do we want it [G7] Now

    [C] What do we [C7] want? [F] Peace World[Dm]wide [C] When do we [G7] want it? [C] Now.

  28. Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water.

    And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.
    Suheir Hammad

  29. "One of the world's longest ongoing occupations is Israel's occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip (1967–present), both Palestinian territories, along with the Syrian Golan Heights."❤⚖💚
    Source: International law and UN resolutions (67-2023)

  30. Not to be technical about it, but the right word is "war prisoner" not "hostage". Hope they'll all return home safe❤
    Hope the sacrafices the Palestinians have been making (13,000+ women and 9000+ children so far) is enough to earn their freedom🍉
    International law, UN resoultions (67-2023), a just and moral cause are all on their side.
    Power to enforce their right might not be on their side though.💔🙏

  31. I would love to hear the full interview including most of all what @abc deemed to truthful to air

  32. Held by a family. That proves more and more that they are all Hamas.

  33. He looks healthy
    He hasn't been abused
    Where are the interviews of the families of the 24000+ dead Palestinians,?
    Those who are abused by IDF?