Overview
- He says guards tried to break his morale by boasting of battlefield victories and insisting Israel had abandoned him, and he was beaten whenever he pushed back.
- Zangauker recounts that after his mother’s televised activism, captors treated him more leniently, engaged in small talk, and at times offered extra food.
- He describes psychological pressure, restraints, and severe deprivation during more than two years in Gaza, including being tied, moved between locations, and receiving meager rations.
- He publicly rejects social‑media conspiracy theories claiming he was never captive or was in Egypt or Qatar, calling the rumors baseless and hurtful.
- Journalist Yolan Cohen, who interviewed him and accompanied his mother, says militants tried to drive him to despair, and Haaretz reports he was released last month in a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal.