Former Israeli hostage ‘very worried’ Trump’s peace plan will not happen

Lucy ManningPrivate correspondent
BBCIn the October 7 attacks, an former Israeli hostage, whose English-Israelic wife and children were killed by Hamas, says the last peace plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas is “very worried”.
In a rare interview, Eli Sharabi, the highest profile of those who were taken to Israel two years ago, said that the remaining 20 living hostages were risky by the ongoing Israel-Gaza War.
The Minister called US President Donald Trump to “finish the job” by using his effect to ensure the release of the other 28 hostages believed to have died.
His former prisoners told Hamas to sign the agreement for the “people … and the Middle East … War for both sides” wrong and terrible. “
“We must protect your hope” will be an agreement, he added.
20 -point peace planHe was accepted by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and immediately proposes an end to struggle and release in 72 hours of all hostages in exchange for hundreds of detention in Israel. Hamas officials said they would reject it.
Hamas still holds the body of 24 -year -old Alon Ohel, who is still hoped to return home for a burial.
Mr. Sharabi, who spent 491 days in captivity, discovered that his wife Lianne and 16-year-old Yahel’s daughters were no longer alive-the day he was released only in February 2025.
When he returned to Israel, he left when he realized that he was “the worst scenario” when he wasn’t there to greet him.
Approximately 1,200 people in Israel passed the border of Hamas armed men on October 7, and 251 people were hostage.
As his second anniversary approached, Mr. Sharabi told BBC News about his ordeal and his life that motivated him to rebuild his life.
When the sun sets on the middle day of Israel, 53 -year -old Mr. Sharabi looks at the calm Mediterranean. While breathing in the mood of the sea, such a freedom felt far from hunger, abuse and violence in the early this year.
On the morning of October 7, the Sharabi family was hiding for hours in the safe rooms in Kibbutz Be’eri, an Israeli community of approximately 1,000 people near the Gaza border. One of the 10 people in Kibbutz Be’eri was killed or hostage that day.
As Hamas armed men exploded and shots, Lianne, who was born in Bristol, England, threw themselves to their daughters.
They tell his gun men that Lianne told Lianne, Noiya and Yahl that they had British passports, but they were dragging him out of his house.
“I probably realized that it was the moment I was kidnapped. So I turned my head towards my daughters and shouted ‘I will come back’ – and when I saw them last.”
Kibbutz’s former Business Manager Mr. Sharabi told how to buy a mosque in Gaza, where he was attacked by Palestinian civilians.
Bloomberg through Getty Images“My eyes were tied, but I could hear men and children, and they started lynching me with their naked hands, and the children’s shoes began to hit me when they were in place.”
He says it is connected to about 16 months of captivity – first with ropes to his wrists and ankles, then with iron chains. The pain caused him to come out.
However, after saying that his prisoners beat him and broke his ribs, he says he is determined to survive even when he struggles to breathe for a month.
“Scary. Freedom when taken from you humiliating,” he remembers.
“You should ask for permission to breathe, talk, go to the toilet.
“I said, I don’t care what’s going to happen. I’m going back to my family or without hands, without their legs or legs. I really believed that I would survive from the first moment.”
Mr. Sharabi said that Hamas was taken to the tunnel network and that he described months of spending months with very little sanitation or food in cramped, inhuman conditions.
For the last six months, there will be only one and a half pieces of pita bread a day, he says only one meal is given a day. “Hunger was the worst thing… You’re the fractures on the carpet, or he says.
After losing more than four stones (25kg), there was shock worldwide Images of the weak and weakened situation When he was finally released.
It was said that he was released a week before his prisoners took place. He was also told that his brother was hostage and probably died in Gaza in the Israeli attack. As this freedom approached, he imagined that Lianne, Noiya and Yahl and England would act with his wife’s relatives.
AFP through Getty ImagesWhen the day of release came, Hamas appeared on the stage with a ceremony on television surrounded by dozens of armed men. At this ceremony, he said how much he was waiting to see his family – but the audience knew something he did not do.
The joy of release soon led to a destructive reality because it returned to Israel.
“The Social Worker approached me and said:” Your mother and your sister are waiting for you ‘. I said to him, ‘Please bring me Lianne and my daughters’. And ‘Your mother and your sister will say’ he said.
“I cried for a few minutes, and I said to myself, ‘I can cry all day, but I won’t help me bring Lianne, Noiya and Yahel back. And I need my family with me.

The former hostage’s colds are shifting while remembering his wife’s first phone call to his parents to share his grief. It was a “very emotional” but “important” call. While the funeral of his family was held in Israel, Hamas was in captivity.
Mr. Sharabi has shown remarkable flexibility since then. He campaign for hostages worldwide – even met with President Trump at the Oval Office. Orum I want him to finish the job and help others back, or he begs.
Trump helps to release a hostage agreement in February and thinks that the US President is effective in repeating vocal pressure to find peace in Israel and Hamas in recent months.
When the BBC was asked if the new peace plan may not be realized, Mr. Sharabi speaking on Wednesday, “Of course – very worried. We were probably sure that it was very close two days ago, but unfortunately it doesn’t look so close. Maybe I don’t know a few things, but I will be surprised.”
He said that the proposal was “very good news” and that people should not lose our belief that one day will be an agreement “.
Hamas says he refuses to release them and expanded the Israeli military campaign, and he says he knows very well how much hostages still live. According to the Ministry of Health, operated by Hamas in the region, more than 66,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza so far.
“When the war continues, he knows that hostages put life at risk. This is not a secret. For me, when I want 48 hostages back today, I just want to stop… war is terrible, people suffer from war, and we can’t forget who is a bad man and who is a good man.”
He wrote a book called Hale to make people aware of their ordeal. Lianne, an enthusiastic reader, used to tell him that he had not read enough – so he thinks he will be proud.
Although it is difficult to continue without his family, he says he doesn’t need memorial days to remember them.
“Yossi, Lianne, Noiya and Yahl in my life every day with me, every moment. But I’m sure they will be with my life, not my life.
“My family and my friends have no privilege of staying in bed and crying after fighting for me for 500 days. It is unacceptable for me to do this.”
In Israel, foreigners approach and tell him that he is a hero. When he spent as a hostage, he strengthened his decision to live despite the loss of his family.
“It was very difficult, but I really love life … I’m trying to be positive. I’m working on it.”





