During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 that aired on Monday, released hostage Alon Ohel, 24, said he is alive today because he made a conscious decision to survive.

“My story started when I chose life. I had the choice at any given moment to give in, and I chose not to,” he told Channel 12 reporter Almog Boker.

Though bound, starved and sexually abused, Ohel held strong. His desire to return to his family kept him going. “I knew I’m getting back to my mother,” Ohel said. “Whatever happens, I’m coming home.”

Ohel said it was impossible to explain, but there was an almost mystical connection between him and his mother. He would speak to her at nights, and his mother would repeat his very same words at demonstrations. “I felt him all the time. I felt his presence,” his mother told Ch

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