Hostage survivor Keith Siegel told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee about his time in the Gaza Strip: "I was held together with Omri Miran. They threatened to kill me several times, put a gun to my head and I saw male and female hostages who experienced severe violence and death threats. I witnessed a female hostage being severely tortured - they pressed a sharp rod against her forehead and a gun to her head." He added that "these images haunt me to this day, and it's becoming harder and harder."