Eli Sharabi Tells Piers Morgan How He Realized His Wife And Daughters Had Been Murdered

NEW YORK (VINnews) — For the first time, Piers Morgan interviewed a freed Israeli hostage. Eli Sharabi, released last February, told Morgan about his kidnapping, his period of excruciating suffering in the hands of Hamas and his mixed feelings on being released from captivity and immediately discovering that his wife and children had been murdered.

Morgan opened the interview by asking Sharabi to describe his days in captivity.

“It was, of course, hell for me, as it was for the other hostages,” Sharabi replied.
“Daily humiliation, a lot of psychological terror from the captors, occasional violence, and very poor hygienic conditions — a shower once every six weeks with only half a bucket of warm water. No soap, no toothpaste. And of course, the worst thing was the hunger. Deliberate starvation. We ate only one meal a day, and that meal was a dry pita. Meanwhile, they [the captors] ate five meals a day.”

“It was like a five-kilo hammer on my head.”

Eli Sharabi tells Piers Morgan about the moment he realised his wife and two daughters had been killed on October 7 after he was released from captivity by Hamas.

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Morgan asked Sharabi what kept him alive during captivity, and whether he feared he would never be released. He responded:

“Personally, I always tried to believe that one day I would be freed. I really wanted to believe that. I tried to stay optimistic — it helped me survive, to keep my spirits up, and not fall into depression. I thought that was the best way to survive there.”

During the interview, Sharaabi recounted the dark morning of Simchat Torah, when he, his wife Lianne and their daughters Noya and Yahel were hiding in their home in Kibbutz Be’eri during the terrorist infiltration. He described how they decided to surrender, hoping that the British passports the girls had would help protect them. But just minutes after he was abducted, the terrorists:”Murdered, slaughtered Noya, Yahel, and Lianne in our home,” he said.

Eli didn’t know what had happened to them until the moment he was released from captivity.

“Thank God no one told me during captivity. That helped me survive — it gave me motivation to hold on, because I believed that one day I’d return, just as I had promised my daughters before the abduction.I clung to the idea that one day I’d see them again, hug and kiss them again. I promised myself we would move to London and live there.”

“Only when I was handed over to the IDF at the border did I find out they had been murdered. A social worker came up to me and said that my mother and sister were waiting for me at Re’im Base. I said to her, ‘Please bring me Lianne, Noya, and Yahel,’ and she told me that my mother and sister would explain everything.”

“And of course, that was the moment I understood that the worst had happened — that they were murdered on October 7. “It felt like a five-kilogram hammer had struck me on the head. I cried. But afterward, after the crying, when they tried to calm me down, I remembered where my strength comes from, and it always comes from my family. I wanted to see my mother and sister and hug them, and that’s what happened.”

Sharabi also shared that three days before his release, he learned that his brother Yossi had also been abducted and was murdered after three months in captivity.

“I thought it was going to be the happiest day of my life. I thought I was safe again. And instead, they told me about the loss of my family. But I’m a very practical man. I know I can’t bring them back, and I can’t let grief bury me. I always look for ways to move on, to stay optimistic, and to rebuild my life, and that’s what I rely on, that maybe they see me from heaven and they’re very proud of me.”

This week, with the signing of the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the body of Yossi Sharaabi was released. Morgan asked Eli how important it was for him that his brother’s body be returned, and he replied:

“It was very, very important. The Sharabi family fought for two years to bring the body back, and I joined them eight months ago.It was important for us to bring him to Israel, and now we have a place to mourn him. It’s a kind of closure, a very sad closure, but we almost feel lucky that we got Yossi’s body back.”