Former Israeli Hostage Details ‘Hell’

Aviva Siegel has not seen her husband Keith in a year, a separation made more painful by the fact that she knows firsthand what her husband is going through. Siegel was hostage in Gaza with her husband for 51 days before being freed in a hostage deal. Kept underground in Hamas tunnels, Siegel describes her capacity as “hell.”

“I touched death, and that's one of the hardest things on earth,” Siegel said. “While we were lying there, I was trying to think, what is it going to feel like? Am I going to die before Keith? And just prayed that I'd die first because I did not want to see Keith suffer.”

With little food and water, Siegel lost 22lbs during her captivity. She watched as her husband, who is now 65, also grew weaker as the days passed.

“Keith had to go to the bathroom and he tried to get up from the mattress, from the floor, and he fell. I'll never forget that,” she recalled.

Siegel sits down with The Daily Signal to share her harrowing experience as a hostage in Gaza, and to call for her husband’s freedom.

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