Freed hostage Omer Wenkert said that the Hamas youth he met while a captive were more concerned with murdering Jews than liberating Palestine.

At the closing event of the TEEN SPIRIT program by the Civilian Public Diplomacy Headquarters, Wenkert said, “Hamas terrorists are not freedom fighters. They are the cruelest terrorist organization in the world. I spoke with the young Gazans, and they don’t talk about freedom but of killing Jews.”

Among many of the challenges of captivity was the lack of information about what happened on October 7th and the reaction of the outside world.