
Gazit, Israel
CNN
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Keith Siegel has been free for nearly four months, but he is still pained by vivid images of his 484 days as a Hamas hostage and of those still held in Gaza’s tunnels.
“It haunts me daily,” Siegel, a dual US-Israeli citizen, told CNN. “Everything that they’re experiencing is very difficult for me to think about. I can’t get those thoughts out of my mind.”
Siegel isn’t just talking about the physical and psychological abuse he was subjected to by his captors or the suffocating conditions and malnutrition he faced in tunnels deep underground. He’s also terrified that Israel’s intensifying bombardment and ground offensive will kill…