An Israeli couple held hostage for 20 hours by Hamas militants bought themselves time while waiting to be rescued by offering their captors beverages, making jokes, and asking for lessons in Arabic.
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, according to Haaretz.
The men, who were speaking Arabic, forced the couple upstairs, broke both of their phones and began rummaging through their closets.
“They pointed a gun at me and held a grenade over my head,” Edri recalled. “I told him I had to inject insulin, trying to distract them from the fact I have children who are police officers … I offered them drinks: Coke Zero, water.”
The men then told Edri that they were heroes and that their children supported their actions.
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.
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