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Tami, the mother of former hostage Rom Braslavski, shared that her son was held in several locations - some where the bodies of other hostages were kept. During his two years in captivity under Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Rom was beaten, tortured, and deprived of basic hygiene. His captors repeatedly pressured him to convert to Islam, promising food in return, but he refused every time. The moment he returned home, he put on his tefilin. In the days leading up to his release, they force-fed him, leaving him with lasting health issues. They tried to break him psychologically, lying that Iran had bombed Israel, that the country had been destroyed, and that thousands of soldiers were dead. They even showed him images of Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, claiming no one was talking about him - that his family was too broken to protest. Now free, Rom spends his days standing by the window. His mother says, “All he wants is the sky, the sun, and air - freedom.”
