ISRAELI hostages have been chained, gagged and burned by Hamas thugs in a horrific campaign of abuse, freed captives have revealed.
Innocent civilian captives are also reportedly being hung by their feet and starved while held in Gaza, according to the devastated mum of hostage Eliya Cohen.
Furious said the latest hostages freed under Hamas and Israel's fragile ceasefire deal "looked like Holocaust survivors".
The US president said he was losing his patience with the deal after seeing footage of Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, who appeared gaunt upon their release.
Hamas terrorists brutally dragged more than 250 hostages back across the border during their October 7 attack.
Now, almost 500 days on, the last hostages are finally being released and laying bare the shocking treatment they have received and witnessed.
Sharabi, 52, Levy, 34, and Ami, 56, said they had been forced to go days without food and were often only given a single rotten pitta to share, Times of Israel reports.
Israel's health ministry said they were suffering from "severe malnutrition" and had lost significant body weight.
Barbaric Hamas brutes also only let them relieve themselves twice a day at specific times, Channel 12 news reported.
They were also cruelly interrogated by Hamas fighters, who burned them with a white-hot, unidentified object.
Levy said he was held in the tunnels for the majority of the time, and was only allowed to show every few months - spending 491 days barefoot.
He reportedly told his family: "I was bound in a dark tunnel, without air, without light.
"I couldn’t stand or walk, and only toward the time of the release did the terrorists remove the chains and I learned to walk again."
He also described depraved mind games Hamas thugs subjected hostages to, by telling them they would be freed soon.
Warped Hamas terrorists tried to give hostages more food in the days before they were finally released in a last-minute attempt to improve their health.
President Isaac Herzog branded the emaciated state of the hostages as "what a crime against humanity looks like".
He said: "The whole world must look directly at Ohad, Or, and Eli— returning after 491 days of hell, starved, emaciated and pained — being exploited in a cynical and cruel spectacle by vile murderers."
Those released told how Eliya Cohen, who remains in captivity, has had a bullet wound on his leg since the October 7 atrocity that still hasn't received proper treatment.
He has also been chained up throughout, and has been given very little food or daylight.
Cohen was held in the tunnels with Sharabi, Levy and Ami - making his mother fear for his life.
She told Israel Hayom newspaper seeing them left her unable to sleep and added: "You understand they are suffering a holocaust."
Alon Ohel, another hostage, meanwhile has been bound, starved and given no medical attention for shrapnel in his shoulder, arm and now partially blind eye.
His heartbroken Idit Ohel mum said: "I can’t understand it. I don’t think there’s a single mother who could handle her son being hungry, hungry for food, and held in chains for so many days."
She added: "Everything you can see that Eli and Or went through, Alon is now experiencing."
Hostages previously released outside the latest deal also gave distressing accounts.
Among them was Amit Soussana, who told how she was raped and tortured at gunpoint by merciless terrorists.
She said: "I was alone, chained by the ankles with a metal shackle, unable to move, and forced to beg to use the bathroom,' she said.
"I was sexually assaulted by the Hamas terrorist who guarded me. He forced me into the shower, following closely with his gun aimed at me.
"His heavy breathing and predatory stare were terrifying... I was powerless to stop it.
"I had no one to comfort me and had to 'behave' for the man who had just violated me in the most horrifying way."
"Not a day goes by that I don’t think about what that terrible man did to me, but I keep reminding myself that I am free now and that he can’t hurt me again, " she added.
So far, 16 of the 33 hostages to be released have come home, as well as five Thai hostages who were returned in an unscheduled release.
In exchange, Israel has released hundreds of prisoners and detainees, ranging from prisoners serving life sentences for deadly attacks to Palestinians detained during the war and held without charge.
But Hamas has accused Israel of dragging its feet on allowing aid into Gaza, one of the conditions of the first phase of the agreement, a charge Israel has rejected as untrue.
In turn, Israel has accused Hamas of not respecting the order in which the hostages were to be released and of orchestrating abusive public displays when they have been handed over to the Red Cross.
Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said it would not let the dire condition of Levy, Ami and Sharabi "pass without response".
It comes as Trump has said he is "committed to buying and owning" the Gaza Strip and relocating the two million Palestinians living there.
He today insisted Palestinians wouldn't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for US "ownership" of war-torn territory
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have hit back at plans - but Netanyahu praised his proposal as "revolutionary".
