‘Because of Ben Gvir’: Freed hostage Segev Kalfon details vengeful torture in Gaza

Freed hostage Segev Kalfon, who was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, said his Hamas captors told him they intensified their beatings against him and other hostages because of inflammatory comments made by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, describing a brutal routine of violence and starvation during his two years in captivity. In a Channel 12 interview aired Saturday, following his release under the October ceasefire deal, Kalfon said, “Whatever Ben Gvir said or did, they’d take it out on us.” In a separate interview aired Saturday on Ynet, Kalfon recounted that around the 270th...