Starved and abused for months, an ex-Israeli hostage says his captors suddenly eased up after Donald Trump won the November 2024 presidential election.
Former hostage Omer Shem-Tov said that his Hamas captors treated him better after President Donald Trump won the November 2024 election, citing fear of reprisals from the American president, and that the terror group had been rooting for a Kamala Harris victory.
“As soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he wants to bring the hostages back home,” Shem-Tov told CNN in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.
“So immediately the way they treated me changed … when Trump became president the way they treated us changed for me personally.”