Hamas guards were radicalized teachers, doctors, former hostage claims

Some of the Hamas terrorists who guarded the hostages in Gaza were teachers, university professors and even doctors who had been radicalized, a former Israeli captive said.

In the wake of this week’s hostage release, Tal Shoham — who was among the hostages freed in February — relived his 500 days of captivity under Hamas, forcing him to contend with just how deep-rooted the hatred for the Jewish state had grown in Gaza over the two years of war.

Shoham claimed that Hamas’ influence had grown to the point where many of the men working for the group were “not soldiers,” but instead everyday civilians who had been “brainwashed” by the terror group . 5

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“One of the guards was a first-grade teacher, another was a lecturer at a university, and another was a doctor,” Shoham told