TEL AVIV, Israel — They will be treated for malnutrition, lack of sunlight and the trauma of wearing leg chains for months. They suffer from unexplained pain and unresolved emotions, and they will have to relearn how to make everyday decisions as simple as when to use the bathroom.
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Gali Berman, carries a placard reading in Hebrew “The People of Israel Live,†as he sits onboard an IAF helicopter en route to the hospital after being released from Hamas captivity, on Oct. 13.
Elkana Bohbot, an Israeli hostage released from the Gaza Strip waves walks off a helicopter at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Oct. 13.
Ziv Berman, an Israeli hostage released from the Gaza Strip gestures from a minibus at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Oct. 13.
Photos from 2 years of war between Israel and Hamas bear witness to its horrors
People attend a memorial service marking two years since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel where many of its community members were Killed and abducted, Oct. 7.
People attend a memorial marking two years anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, at the site of the Nova music festival where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted in the assault, near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
People watch a live Gaza broadcast of the release of three Israeli hostages during a gathering at "Hostages Square" in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
People take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in Rehovot, Israel, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Dor Kedmi)
Palestinian militants drive a captured Israeli military vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
People take cover from incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A photo hangs on a refrigerator next to bullet holes in a house at Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, after the kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Doron and Tami, parents of Israeli reserve soldier captain Omri Yosef David mourn during his funeral in Carmiel, northern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. David, 27, was killed during a military ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli troops walk through the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People celebrate as a helicopter carrying hostages released from the Gaza Strip lands at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (Moti Milrod/Haaretz via AP)
Israeli right-wing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People run for cover during an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, after the Israeli army issued a warning. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
Displaced people flee northern Gaza along the coastal road toward the south, after Israel's military says its expanded operation in Gaza City has begun and warning residents to leave, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
People struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli captive Eli Sharabi who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, stands on a stage escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hossam Azzam holds the body of his child, Amir, who was killed in an Israeli military airstrike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A mother carries her child into a patient treatment tent set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Naima Abu Ful sits for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Flames and thick smoke erupt from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip are seen beyond a sunflower field on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Eliya, holds a photo of her grandfather, Alex Dancyg, who according to the Israeli military died after being kidnapped by the Hamas militant group, during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Balloons are released to mark the second birthday of hostage Kfir Bibas as demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Displaced people return to Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
People look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on residential buildings and a mosque in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israelis embrace each other at the house of Maayan and Yuval Bar killed by Hamas, as Israel marks the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, at the Kibbutz Be'eri, an Israeli communal farm on the Gaza border, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Palestinians bury the bodies of people who were killed in fighting with Israel and returned to Gaza by the Israeli military, during a mass funeral in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of reservist Elkana Vizel during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Vizel, 35, was killed during Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli soldiers ride in armored personnel carriers (APC) near the Israeli-Gaza border as smoke rises in the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People look at their neighbor's damaged house following an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israeli Lt. Col. Ido, whose last name was redacted by the military, walks inside a tunnel underneath the UNRWA compound, where the military discovered tunnels in the main headquarters of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
