A freed Hamas hostage left an anti-Israel university student protester screaming after he bravely told her how his terrorist captors beat, bludgeoned and abused him, as described in their encounter Shows a powerful video of.
Moran Stella Yanai, who was one of the snatched from nova concert During last year’s October 7 terrorist attack, UCLA student Aidan Doyle was filmed calmly facing off during a panel discussion on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict earlier this year.
Doyle, an outspoken leader of UCLA’s anti-Israel tent camp, refused to make eye contact with Yanai and could be seen shifting uncomfortably in his seat as he recounted the horror of his ordeal.
“When I was entering Gaza and there was a video that I saw, 100% of the civilians were celebrating taking me… I saw 100% of the civilians were beating me, beating me. Were staying. My leg was broken. I had bruises all over my body,” Yanai was filmed saying in the viral clip, which exploded online after it was posted. Gr8 debate monday.
“Do you know I never cursed him? I never argued with him. And I never treated them like garbage. I respected them even when they mistreated me, because I believe that if I want to be respected, I have to respect everyone.”
“So I am asking you one thing and one thing only because I see that you are not comfortable. I am asking you to check the facts from both sides.
Earlier in the panel, Yanai – who was held hostage for 44 days in Gaza – admitted to the audience that he and Doyle were not on the same page.
“Have you ever been to Israel? Have you been to Gaza before? Probably not,” he questioned Doyle. “Did you know that most hostages believe in coexistence?”
“On October 7, and this is what (the terrorists) told me, they did not know about the Nova festival, they did not know that we had 3,000 people there. He planned, and he told me that, he planned to go ahead and kill as much as he could. In Beersheba, in Tel Aviv, in Haifa – they wanted to kill everyone,” she said.
Doyle, whose Instagram account is filled with anti-Israel posts, was among those who helped lead the campaign UCLA’s tent camp last year,
At the time, he shared several clips of students being pulled over by police as a protest descended into chaos,
Yanai, a jewelery designer, was one of the first batch of hostages freed by Hamas as part of a temporary ceasefire with Israel last November.
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