Former hostage Matan Angrest says he was tortured, including being subjected to electric shocks, during more than two years in Hamas captivity.

In a Thursday interview with Channel 12’s investigative program Uvda, he describes an eight-hour interrogation in which he faced pressure to divulge sensitive information. “For eight hours in a row, I sat and had to tell them things, during which I knew that it wasn’t just about my own well-being but the security of the country at stake. There are things that are in the realm of ‘die and don’t tell,’” he says, noting that his exposure to classified intelligence stemmed from serving in an elite tank unit.

Angrest recalls the moment he regained consciousness after being taken from his tank, which had been hit by an RPG near the Gaza border, and realizing he was inside a house in Gaza.

He says he found himself facing more than half a dozen Palestinians seated in front of him.

They questioned him about his military service and the circumstances of his abduction, speaking in Arabic, which he could not understand. He says their frustration quickly escalated into violence as they beat him while his hands and feet were tied.

Angrest adds that his arm was so badly burned that he couldn’t move it.

“Someone came to me with two cables and put them on my wound and just turned (a machine) on. I could feel myself being electrocuted. I screamed in a pain that is impossible to describe,” he recounts.