Full Analysis Summary
Captive's account of captivity
Arbel Yehoud is a former captive held by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.
She told Channel 12 News she tried to end her life several times while in captivity.
She said she suppressed much of what she endured until after her release.
Haaretz reports that shortly before her release she saw drone footage of 'Hostage Square', where people held signs for hostages including signs for her and her partner Ariel Cunio.
That footage gave her a renewed 'commitment to return'.
The account centers on Yehoud's first-person testimony about suicidal attempts and the psychological toll of long captivity.
Coverage Differences
Single-source reporting
Only Haaretz’s Israeli-source snippet is available for this story. No other distinct sources were provided to compare perspectives, so cross-source differences, contradictions, or alternative framing cannot be identified. The paragraph therefore reflects Haaretz’s own reporting, including its description that Yehoud ‘tried to end her life several times’ and that drone footage renewed her ‘commitment to return.’
Gaza captivity account
Yehoud described a sustained pattern of fear and control by her captors, saying she exchanged letters with Ariel Cunio for months until the captors threatened, 'No more letters. We will kill you.'
Haaretz presents those threats and the severing of communication as moments that intensified her despair and contributed to repeated suicide attempts during her Gaza captivity, framing the captivity as prolonged psychological cruelty.
Coverage Differences
Missed information
Because only Haaretz is available, the reporting cannot be contrasted against other outlets for additional context — for example, further medical detail, statements from Yehoud’s partner Ariel Cunio, or third-party mental-health experts. The paragraph therefore reports Haaretz’s specific quotation of the captors’ threat and its interpretation that these events ‘intensified her despair.’
Survivor testimony nuances
Haaretz reports Yehoud said she identified with parts of fellow survivor Romi Gonen’s December testimony about sexual harassment in Hamas captivity.
She stressed that a gap remained between their experiences.
The article presents Yehoud’s comments as nuanced, noting she acknowledges similarities with Gonen’s testimony while drawing distinctions.
Yehoud’s remarks indicate survivors’ experiences vary and cannot be collapsed into a single narrative.
Coverage Differences
Narrative framing
With only Haaretz available, this framing — that Yehoud both identified with and distinguished her experience from Romi Gonen’s December testimony — cannot be weighed against outlets that might emphasize either consonance between survivors or sharper divisions. The paragraph therefore follows Haaretz’s language that Yehoud “identified with parts of” Gonen’s testimony but noted “a gap remained.”
Yehoud's Haaretz testimony
Yehoud's account, as presented by Haaretz, emphasizes psychological survival and the role of external public protest — described as "Hostage Square footage" — in sustaining captives' will to live.
Because only the Haaretz snippet is provided, broader claims about responsibility for deaths in Gaza or labels such as "genocide" are not present in the source material and therefore cannot be asserted here.
The reporting focuses on Yehoud's testimony about captivity, suicide attempts, letters, and her response to public protests.
Coverage Differences
Missing broader context
The available source does not include statements about Israeli military actions in Gaza, civilian casualties, or descriptions of the war as genocide; therefore no sources in the provided material explicitly use terms like ‘genocide’ or discuss Israeli responsibility for killings. This paragraph explicitly notes that such broader claims are not contained in Haaretz’s snippet and cannot be added without other sources.