Trapped for 505 days

“I didn’t want them to see me cry”

The Austrian Tal Shoham was abducted during the attack on Israel by the Islamist terrorist organization and held captive for almost one and a half years, threatened and humiliated. He told the "Krone" in Tel Aviv about his terrible hostage situation.

(Bild: photonews.at/Georges Schneider)

After 505 days in the hands of the terrorist organization Hamas, Austro-Israeli Tal Shoham spoke for the first time about his martyrdom. The "Krone" accompanied him - back to the place where the incomprehensible began.

I have to sit down for a moment, my muscles aren't quite working yet." Tal Shoham takes a seat on a rickety armchair in the front garden. Birds are chirping, the sun is shining over Kibbutz Be'eri, it is completely quiet.