An Israeli couple held hostage for 20 hours by Hamas militants bought themselves time while awaiting rescue by offering their captors beverages, making jokes, and asking for lessons in Arabic.
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After a rocket siren forced Rahel Edri and her husband to enter the bomb shelter in their Ofakim home, five men claiming to be police officers broke in and began giving orders, Edri told Walla,The men, who were speaking Arabic, forced the couple upstairs, broke both of their phones and began rummaging through their closets.
While the couple was being held hostage, the men would frequently check the windows of the home to ensure no one was coming to their rescue.“I said, ‘I’ll teach you Hebrew, and you’ll teach me Arabic,'” she said. “I understood that it was a matter of life and death.” “Instead of killing us, the terrorists ran to various locations and hid until they were shot at,” Edri said. “I want to thank the police. They are our heroes.”
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