One was held in a Gaza tunnel, deep underground, shackled in darkness for nearly two years.

Another was kept in total isolation, enduring a process of deliberate starvation at the hands of his captors, losing nearly 40% of his body weight.

They were tortured and tormented and in constant peril.

These were some of the gruesome stories emerging from the 20 living hostages released on Monday, two years after Gazan terrorists seized them during the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel.

Elkana Bohbot , 36, one of the organizers of the Supernova music festival, now reunited with his wife, Rivka, and five-year-old son Re’em, was chained in a deep tunnel for nearly two years, losing all sense of time and space.

Over the two years in captivity, he was able to see images of his family at rall

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