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“I was a little shackled by the Japanese custom that you are only a mom if you go through natural birth, so I had my first child without an epidural,” Nishimura said.

Hostages freed earlier said they were with him in Hamas’s underground tunnels, where he was kept in shackles and still had a piece of shrapnel lodged in his eye.

With earlier, often emaciated, shackled, beaten hostages, "they had things in their blood exams, in their enzymes, that we couldn't understand".

"It felt, when they scored, it took the shackles off us a little bit, which we need to address because we need to be better when it's 0-0."

They lose so much weight that the grip of their shackles grows loose; their eyesight deteriorates and their nails fall out.