Overview
- Yosef Chaim Ohana recounted that captors staged sessions where hostages were told to choose who would be killed or wounded, describing lots being drawn.
- He said a gun was pressed to his head during an interrogation before a sheikh intervened and stopped the apparent execution threat.
- Ohana described recurring assaults in which detainees were lined against a wall, ordered to remove shirts, and beaten without warning.
- He reported psychological tactics that conditioned hostages to panic at the sight of flashlights, which he said signaled impending abuse.
- He said he argued for his life by stressing his value as a bargaining chip in prisoner exchanges, portraying survival as tied to swap leverage.