The mom of one of many 4 Hamas hostages rescued by Israeli forces throughout a particular operation over the weekend says her son has described to her “very unusual guidelines” the Palestinian terrorists made him dwell by.
Evgeniia Kozlova informed Reuters that her first dialog with Andrey Kozlov after he was freed was “each laborious and joyful, and great, and horrible as a result of he was in an enormous emotional turmoil.”
“He informed us that they have been required to comply with some very unusual guidelines, like you may’t sit together with your legs towards these terrorists. You’ll be able to’t do that, and you’ll’t do this,” she mentioned to the information company. “You would be punished for getting the improper water or getting it from the improper place.”
“They preferred to inform them: ‘You are an animal, you are a donkey, you are a idiot, you are soiled,” Kozlova additionally recalled her 27-year-old son as saying. “Andrey now is aware of these phrases completely properly in Arabic, the whole lot about Arabic swear phrases he has learnt properly.”
DRAMATIC VIDEO SHOWS MOMENT ISRAELI HOSTAGES ARE RECOVERED IN DARING RESCUE
Evgeniia Kozlova, the mom of Andrey Kozlov, who was taken hostage in the course of the lethal Oct. 7 assault by Hamas, speaks to Reuters throughout an interview after Israeli particular forces rescued him from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, June 11. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
Kozlova added that “Andrey informed us: ‘There are some issues I’ll by no means let you know’. I do not know what he did not inform us and what he does not wish to ever inform us.”
She informed Reuters that her son – who was captured by Hamas on the Nova music competition close to the Israel-Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023 – mentioned he remained satisfied he would return to Israel sooner or later.
“There was such a circulate of power from him, he was crying and laughing, and I used to be laughing too. We have been comforting one another,” Kozlova mentioned.
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A mixture image exhibits (clockwise from prime left) former hostages Almog Meir Jan, Noa Argamani, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv after arriving in Israel following the rescue. (Israeli Military/Reuters)
Israeli forces on Monday launched dramatic video showing the rescue of Kozlov and the opposite hostages.
These rescued additionally included Noa Argamani, 26, Shlomi Ziv, 41, and Almog Meir Jan, 22.
Newly freed hostages board a helicopter and are flown again to Israel in the course of the operation over the weekend. (IDF)
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Video obtained by Fox Information Digital exhibits Yamam anti-terror officers and Shin Guess operatives storming the situation the place three of the 4 hostages have been being held. Ziv, Kozlov and Jan are later seen boarding a helicopter and being flown again to Israel.
Fox Information’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
