Moran Stella Yanai went through a harrowing experience during her 54-day captivity in Gaza. In a recent interview, the 40-year-old jewellery designer recounted how she tried to hide in a potato field as Hamas gunmen raided the site of the Nova music festival in Israel near the Gaza border on October 7 last year.

Ms Yanai had been caught twice before by them but managed to convince them she was Arab, not Jewish. However, during her third encounter, her captors were different. "They didn't talk, they just grabbed me," she told BBC, recalling how they had "started to throw me from one to the other, and put me in the car.” She also revealed that “two terrorists in the front, four in the backseat, three more in the [boot], and only me on top of everybody."

As Ms Yanai crossed the Gaza border, she caught a glimpse of the crowd on the other side of the fence including "happy" women, children and men. "It was like a bull being entered into a huge arena," she explained.