Former hostage Emily Damari recalled once getting in a physical altercation with a Hamas captor who shoved a fellow hostage, in an often lighthearted interview broadcast Saturday that showcased her spunk and love of soccer.

“I started speaking in Hebrew, not Arabic — ‘What are you doing?’ — and pushed him back,” she told Channel 12. “He grabbed me by the arm, and I pushed his arm away, until others separated us.”

“Would I have gotten a bullet? Fine, then I’ll die and won’t be in captivity, thank you very much,” she said. “Sucks for my family, for my friends, but I’ll be out of this nightmare.”

Damari apparently got on her captors’ nerves. “I asked them everything — how they built the tunnels, how much money they make off of them — until they had enough of it,'” she said, adding that the captors nicknamed her “Fuduli,” meaning curious in Arabic. Other nicknames included “spring, Mogli, Tarzan” and “Shajaa,” the latter being Arabic for “brave,” she said.

She also recalled keeping secret from her captors that she is gay.

“They can’t know something like that, they consider........

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