How Shoshan Haran Survived 50 Days in Hamas Captivity

The first apartment the terrorists hid their hostages in Gaza had a cardboard box in the corner of the room, beside a blue double sofa, teeming with toys. Winnie the Pooh. Two blue Smurfs, one donning a white moustache, beard and red hat, the other with a yellow hat and long mustache.

For Dr. Shoshan Haran, the seemingly innocuous dolls pointed to something beyond imagination: that the Hamas-led terrorists who bulldozed, pillaged, burned, massacred, raped and kidnapped their way through southern Israel and through her tight-knit kibbutz, Be’eri, had planned in advance to take children captive.

“It’s so vicious that it’s hard for me to express how you could use young children as bargaining chips,” she told The Post.