Haaretz reported that during a meeting between released Israeli captives, representatives of families of current captives, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a woman who was held in the Gaza Strip said that the prisoners were scared they would be killed by Israel’s bombardment – not Hamas.

"What I see on TV scares me a lot. I see [Israeli] bombings there, and you have no idea where the captives are. I was in a house surrounded by explosions. We slept in tunnels, and we feared not Hamas, but Israel might kill us, and then it would have been said, 'Hamas killed you,' she said.