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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont

Freed Israeli hostage briefly escaped Hamas after airstrike, says relative

Roni Krivoy, 25, is taken towards the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after his release by Hamas on Sunday.
Roni Krivoy, 25, is taken towards the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after his release by Hamas on Sunday. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

One of the Israeli hostages freed on Sunday briefly escaped captivity to hide in the Gaza ruins, it has emerged, amid fresh details of the conditions Hamas’s prisoners were kept in.

Roni Krivoy, 25, who was kidnapped while working as a sound engineer at a music festival attacked by Hamas, and who has dual Israeli-Russian citizenship, escaped the building where he was being held after it was damaged in an Israeli airstrike.

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