Overview
- Eli Sharabi, released last month after 16 months in Hamas captivity, will meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
- Sharabi's account of severe torture, starvation, and the murder of his family has drawn international attention and sympathy.
- Trump extended the invitation after viewing excerpts of Sharabi's interview, describing his survival as comparable to that of Holocaust survivors.
- Sharabi and other freed hostages will travel to Washington D.C. on a plane provided by Miriam Adelson, a prominent Trump donor.
- The meeting underscores the fragile state of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, with 59 hostages still held in Gaza and negotiations ongoing.