"They deliberately hurt me" Former hostage Maya Regev shared the abuse she endured for 50 days while held captive in Gaza after being shot in the leg and kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7. Maya says that while she was treated for a gunshot wound to her leg, those treating her deliberately hurt her. "Sometimes they would take chlorine, alcohol, or apple cider vinegar and pour them into the gunshot wounds." "In order to prevent me from screaming, they would drug me with ketamine and pethidine intravenously. It's more of a muscle relaxant than a pain reliever, so I just didn't have the ability to react to them - but I did feel it," she said. When asked what kept her going during this time, Maya responded, "I had two choices: to lie on the mattress and cry that I miss my parents, to cry that I was shot, to cry that I was in captivity and just give up - or pick myself up and fight. I think that's what really saved me in the end." She also said that she wants to study medicine: "When I was there, I told myself that if I get out of this and get home, I want to take care of people properly." What a brave young woman! 115 hostages are still in Gaza, enduring the worst physical and mental abuse. We must bring them home now!
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