Tag: Captivity

In Your Head, You Count Every Day’: Former October 7 Hostage Reflects on Two Years in Captivity

In Your Head, You Count Every Day’: Former October 7 Hostage Reflects on Two Years in Captivity

Fundacion Rapala – Bar Kupershtein stepped out of the medical center with a smile that hid the weight of 738 days spent underground in Gaza. His gentle wave to supporters contrasted sharply with the trauma he endured two years he openly calls “hell.” At just 23, he faced the unimaginable: surviving starvation, isolation, and violence