Captivity survivor Omar Shem-Tov published an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal about the film "Collateral Damage." "I know what it means to be 'collateral damage.' For 505 days, that's exactly what I was," Shem-Tov wrote. "One of my captors told me his mother received a phone call warning her to leave her home because an Israeli strike could endanger her. The call came from the IDF. And there I was – kidnapped, starved and tortured by her son, while my army was trying to protect his mother's life." He also wrote: "In Venice, the film received standing ovations that lasted more than 24 minutes. For me, those minutes felt like a barrage of knives."