Journalist Lesley Stahl of 60 minutes is confronted with a recoil about her treatment of a Hamas hostel, with angry users of social media accusing her of sympathy towards the terrorist group.
Stahl was beaten online after she asked former hostage agent Keith Siegel if Hamas terrorists deliberately hollen him or whether they just had no food to hand out.
“Do you think they starved you because they just didn't have food?” Stahl asked Seigel after he shared that his kidnappers became Worrer after his wife Aviva was released.
Seigel, who spent 484 days in captivity, replied, “No, I think they harden me, and they would often eat for me and don't offer me food.”
Various Pro-Israël X accounts have shared the exchange and accused Stahl of defending the Islamic terrorists.
The 'Jew Fight Back account' wrote: 'Shame at 60 minutes. Shame about CBS. And shame every apologist who still can't admit that Hamas is pure angry. '
Conservative journalist Ari Hoffman added: 'Lesley Stahl & CBS should be ashamed of himself. During the interviews with the released hostages used Stahl Hamas data and points of talks … She should ask the Nazis if they wanted to starve the Jews in the Holocaust or not had enough help. '
60 minutes host Lesley Stahl is confronted with a recoil about her treatment of an Israeli who was held hostage by Hamas for more than a year
“Do you think they starved you because they just didn't have food?” Stahl asked Keith Seigel
Keith Siegel (depicted to embrace his wife Aviva after his release) claimed that hostages were allowed to shower every month with the help of a bucket of cold water and a small cup
Former employee of the White House Kayleigh Mcenany said: 'At one point [Stahl] Cases a hostage who describes and beats his hunger to ask: “Do you think they are [Hamas terrorists] Hungered or they just didn't have food? “What '
Stopantisemitism wrote: 'Ridiculous moment on @60minutes: Lesley Stahl asks hostage agent Keith Siegel or Hamas to show him out because they had no food. He closes her. Hamas did not heat him up alone, they ate him, mocked him, humiliated him sexually and forced him to see female hostages being tortured. '
Seigel, 65, was violently abducted alongside his wife Aviva from their house in Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas launched his attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
In the episode of Sunday of 60 minutes, the experienced journalist spoke with various Israeli hostages who were recently liberated by Hamas, including Yarden Bibas, whose young sons Ariel and Kfir become a symbol of Israeli suffering in the war.
Bibas echoed the fear that Siegel said he endured and claimed that his abductors repeatedly taunt him about the fate of his family.
“They were killed in cool blood. Bald hands, “he said about his wife Shiri, four -year -old Ariel and Baby Kfir, adding it:”[Hamas] Used to tell me: “It doesn't matter. You get a new woman, new children. Better woman, better children.”
Seigel told Stahl that he was lagging behind his breath 'and' live threatened 'while they were forced into a vehicle, were driven to Gaza and were taken by armed terrorists by a tunnel.
He said he was beaten, starving and forced to look at 'very cruel and very violent' terrorists who attack other hostages.
“I witnessed a young woman who was tortured by the terrorists. I mean literal torture, not just in a figurative sense, “he said. “I saw sexual abuse with female hostages.”
He claimed that hostages were allowed to shower every month with the help of a bucket of cold water and a small cup.
Hamas also shape the heads and genital regions of their male prisoners, Siegel claimed, revealed that he “felt humiliated.”
He said how he felt 'completely dependent' from his abductors and suggested that they used that dependence to 'torture me in a psychological way'.
Siegel noted that Hamas had left him alone several times, making him “very, very scared that they might not come back.”
Yarden Bibas (depicted on Sunday during his first media interview since he was released in a cessation last month -the fires) also called US President Donald Trump to put an end to the war in Gaza, and claims that Trump is the only one who is the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas Kan Kan Kanas.
Yarden Bibas – whose sons Ariel, 4 and KFIR, 10 months, become a symbol of Israeli suffering in the war – Hamas tells him: “You get a better woman and children” when his family was killed. Bibas (left) is depicted with his wife Shiri (right) and their sons Ariel and KFIR
He said he would wonder, “Do I have to try to escape?” But noticed that even his abductors knew: “I would not dare to do that because I needed them.”
The liberated hostage, who broke in tears when he gave his interview, added that, even after his release, he spends most of his time on making the hostages who are still being imprisoned in Gaza.
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