Former hostage Yarden Bibas speaks of friend in captivity, Sinwar's broken promise

(JNS) — Yarden Bibas, who was a Hamas hostage for 484 days and whose wife and children were murdered by the terror group in captivity, spoke with Israeli media about his best friend, David Cunio, who remains in captivity.

Yarden, who didn’t want to speak about himself, told Israel’s Channel 12 News in the interview that he and David had been friends since first grade.

“When they were introducing the students, something about his name, about his appearance, caught my eye,” he said. “During the first break I went and actually offered him friendship. I said to him, ‘Do you want to be my friend?’”...