In an interview that aired Thursday night on Channel 12, reunited freed hostages Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel recounted their time in Hamas captivity together, each crediting the other with his survival.

“It’s a dream come true,” Ohel said, of sitting together. Turning to Sharabi, he said: “This is victory, right? This is our victory.”

Sharabi concurred: “We’re lucky, look at this. We’re alive. There are those who didn’t come out of [Gaza] alive.”

Ohel and Sharabi were held together with fellow hostages Eliya Cohen and Or Levy for the majority of their time as hostages, having all been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.

They weren’t all returned at the same time, however, with Ohel left behind during the January 2025 hostage deal that saw the other three freed.

The young pianist, who was abducted from the Nova music festival, was among the last hostages released in October, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal, over two years after he was taken captive.

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Watch the moment hostage survivors, Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel, meet for the first time since captivity.

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“This whole group of four hostages… We went through a lot of things there, and a lot of challenges that aren’t easy to manage. And we said, and I always said to myself, luckily I am not alone,” recalled Sharabi.

“Alon, for seven months, survived day after day — with his thoughts, rising in the morning, closing his eyes at night. That’s being alone. That’s being alone with terrorists,” he said.

Ohel said in a recent solo interview that, while in captivity, the men discussed their potential responses to all sorts of scenarios upon being........

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