Israeli Hostages Recount Their Grim Imprisonment in Hamas Tunnels

  • Details of conditions in which hostages were kept are revealed
  • Only 70 of about 240 hostages have been released so far

A Red Cross vehicle carrying released hostages drives towards the Rafah border point with Egypt on Nov. 28.

Photographer: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
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Kept underground, not much food, poor hygiene.

Those are the conditions in which a 10-month-old baby and his four-year-old brother are being held, along with dozens of other Israeli hostages still in Gaza, according to Ofri Bibas, whose brother was kidnapped with his wife and two children.