“They tied me upside down like a rotisserie chicken.” Freed Israeli hostage Amit Soussana, 40, has given a lengthy interview recounting her time in Hamas captivity in Gaza, which aired tonight on Israel's Channel 12. This is a short segment from that interview. Voiceover: Everything she had been through that morning, in this house and in the previous one, couldn't have prepared her for what was about to happen. Soussana: "One of the terrorists called himself Amir. They said he was the nicest one, of the terrorists. And his little daughter had been treated at Hadassah Hospital [in Jerusalem], she had cancer in her eye. And we basically saved her life. And they would talk about it all the time." Reporter: "The terrorists?" Soussana: "Yes. What great doctors there are in Israel." Voiceover: It was this man who would soon turn out to be particularly brutal. Soussana: "So I look at Amir and I say to him, I whisper to him, I look him in the eye, and I say to him, 'please,' that he put a stop to it. And the senior terrorist beat me with the pistol, right here, and I hear him say something like, 'that's it, I don't care, I'm going to throw her, I'm going to toss her out of here, I'm going to kill her...' that sort of thing, in Arabic, but you understand, you understand." "Suddenly they start moving things around, two armchairs that were in the living room, they moved them away, and they brought two poles, and they simply tie me by my hands and feet, which were handcuffed, like a rotisserie chicken. The poles were like this and I was tied to one pole by my hands and to the other pole by my feet and I was tied upside down with masking tape covering my face." "And Amir comes over with a huge wooden stick, a really huge stick, and beats me, mostly the bottoms of my feet, and I don't understand, I didn't understand."
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