Gaza hostage survivor recounts horrifying abuse by Hamas captors

(JNS) — Omer Wenkert, 23, described the brutal abuse he endured in the Gaza Strip at the hands of his Hamas captors.

“They just hit you like crazy with everything they can find, whether it’s hitting your legs with the barrel of the gun, punching your face, kicking you all over. With each punch you pass out and the next one wakes you up,” said Wenkert in a televised interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News.

On his birthday his captor had opened the door and awakened him in a state of “complete madness, insanely aggressively,” he recalled. “That was my birthday. [It] was my birthday gift … I was...