Freed 'Israeli' captive reveals how Hamas guard saved his life in Gaza
American-'Israeli' captive Edan Alexander, who was released in a one-off gesture of goodwill by Hamas, revealed how dangerously he came close to being killed in 'Israeli' strikes in his last month of captivity.
In a report by Yedioth Ahronoth, it said that on April 14, bombs dropped by the 'Israeli' Air Force on the shaft of a tunnel, where Edan Alexander was held, made it collapse.
'I thought that was it, I'm dead. I managed to miraculously survive for a year and a half, but now it's the end. I'm going to suffocate here in the tunnel,' Edan Alexander said, according to Ynet.
However, the quick thinking of one of the Hamas guards saved his life; by activating the ejection doors to prevent toxic gases from the bomb from entering the tunnel.
The incident claimed the life of one of the guards.
'We started to run away, and there was some kind of corridor — a very, very long corridor — I don't know what was there on the other side, probably a connection to another route. We started running in that direction and then, suddenly, another bomb fell right above,' Alexander says recalling how they tried to relocate him to another tunnel.
The second bomb collapsed a ceiling and injured his shoulder.
'When the second bomb fell, and everything collapsed and we were buried underneath, it was the scariest moment of all time in captivity,' he continued, describing the 'Israeli' Air Force strikes as 'earthquakes.'
He also injured his hand while trying to dig his way out after the strikes.
'The injuries to his hands that everyone saw are the result of trying to extricate himself from the scene,' his father said to Ynet.
Incidentally, the strikes that endangered Edan Alexander's life were on April 14, the same day when the 'Israeli' army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said: 'the operation in Gaza does not endanger the hostages. Every move was made with the approval of Maj Gen. Nitzan Alon, the IDF's hostage pointman.'
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