Dr. Renana Eitan has been treating 15 freed Hamas hostages at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, and she described the barbarian conditions they were held under and the psychological and physical torture they were subjected to.

She spoke to Fox News "Sunday Night in America" and revealed what she's been seeing:

I can tell you that on behalf of all the medical and psychological teams treating those who return, the mental states we encountered have no precedent in medical literature. We feel that we have to rewrite the textbooks of post-trauma.

Not only were conditions horrible, but the hostages were also subject to starvation, beatings, sexual assault, and the psychological terror of not knowing where their family members were or if they were even alive:

"Those held captive were subject to starvation, to beating, to sexual abuse. They were being held in inhumane sanitary conditions. Extremely severe psychological abuse was inflicted on them, including separation from family members, separation of siblings, separation of children from their mothers. 

"They were held in solitary confinement and spent long days in total darkness until they developed severe hallucinations," Eitan claimed. "Children were forced to watch brutal videos. They were under constant threats by weapons and threats to harm them even after they were released. They refer to the forced use of psychiatric drugs and other substances."

While we've seen the happy relatives of the hostages, and some of the hostages themselves smiling at their newfound freedom, that doesn't mean that they're OK. Some of the freed captives may look fine on the outside, but Eitan warned that many will bear severe psychological scars and post-traumatic stress for the rest of their lives:

Some of the home comers, they look happy, they look fine, they look physically fine, and we try to hold on to those optimistic signs, but still, even those who seem fine, we know that most of them [are] suffering from severe post-traumatic symptoms, they have painful, traumatic memories. And they are entering into dissociative states, where for a moment they feel as if they are still in captivity and only later do they return to the understanding that they have been released.

As my colleague Bonchie reported earlier Monday, the reason Hamas didn't free more women in the hostage swap is because the terror outfit/government authority doesn't want them to tell the world what actually happened to them down in the tunnels.  

State Department Spokesman Matt Miller: "It seems that one of the reasons Hamas doesn't want to turn women over that they've been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is they don't want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them." pic.twitter.com/W3oLLAnwzJ

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 4, 2023

That implies that there are some captives who have been treated much worse than the ones Dr. Eitan has been treating, which is a horrific thought.

As we see demonstration after demonstration celebrating Hamas and decrying Israel's military effort to wipe out the group, one can't help but wonder if the protesters simply don't care about the mountain of evidence that Hamas committed unspeakable atrocities on that day--and continues to do so. 

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) appeared on CNN on Sunday, and when asked about the rape and mutilation of women carried out by the terror group, she would barely condemn it, instead turning her focus back to bashing Israel. 

Even Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman knows better than that:

They could be protesting Hamas. They could be protesting Hamas' systematic rape of Israeli women and girls or demanding the remaining hostages be immediately released.

Instead, they targeted a Jewish restaurant. It's pathetic and rank antisemitism. https://t.co/zDZQwy84g5

— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) December 4, 2023

We're in weird times when college students and professors, Democrat leaders, and large numbers of the populace are openly backing a group that committed—and continues to commit—horrendous acts of violence. Disgusting.

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