way down. how deep are we underground do you think right now? at the moment, we re more or less between 10 to 15 meters under ground. reporter: 10 to 15 meters. and now we re going down another level. down more steps. we re about to go down again another level. so low, my head keeps banging off the roof. what are we looking at here? this is a small room. reporter: with some kind of air ventilation system. an air ventilation system that goes up. reporter: and metal frame around the door. these metal frames. as much as this is a small room, this is how the different cages that they put the kidnapped. reporter: so they were held in cages? in cages, yeah. reporter: hidden and utterly cut off. down here, you really can t hear anything, what s going on in the outside world.
with some kind of air ventilation system. air ventilation system that goes up. metal frame around the door. and these metal frames. this can be as much as this is a small room, this is how the different cages that they put the kidnapped so they were held in cages. in cages, yeah. reporter: hidden and utterly cut off. and down here you really can t hear anything what s going on in the outside world. now we must be 20 or 30 meters down? we re almost 20. almost 20. so they have tunnels three times as deep as this. three times as deep. what s clear here, the money, planning, and preparation invested for a long siege. we re 20 meters underground here, 20 meters, and there s a fully flush toilet, and it s even painted.
or the kidnapped and hostages who are in gaza, part of them until today. in the beginning, we understood that something is going on, and as you know until the evening we started to realise how big the issue is, and how much people are involved in that. did it feel, if i may, like an attack on you? i m very mindful that amongst all of the victims there were, according to haaretz s numbers, there were 2a arab citizens murdered, i9 bedouin arabs amongst them. that s true. at least nine bedouin arabs were taken hostage at that time as well. you are a citizen of israel did it feel like an attack on you? it felt like a chaotic situation, but there is nobody can feel safe if we
well, we re using this date, october 7th what we mean by that is the murderous assault by hamas on southern israel which left more than 1,200 people, women, children, men, murdered, dead. when you heard the news on that day, did you anticipate the scale of trauma, shock, grief, anger that was going to sweep across israel and continues to this very day to sweep across israel? no, i don t think that anybody anticipated the amount of grief, because nobody anticipated also the huge trauma that would be created from the killing and from the fact that there are civilians.who became victims of this assault, or the kidnapped and hostages who are in gaza, part of them until today.