Exclusive | Elderly Israeli hostage reveals how he was forced to cook for his Hamas captors: If someone tells them to kill us, theyll do it

An elderly Israeli grandpa held captive by Hamas revealed to The Post on Monday how he was forced to cook for his captors — while sharing barely a single pita a day with another hostage.Luis Har, 72, who was held for 129 days, was tasked with cooking for the five terrorists who watched over him and four other hostages at gunpoint all hours of the day in a small second-story apartment somewhere in Gaza.The elderly man also prepared food for himself and his fellow captives, at least at the beginning.“I prepared the food.I cooked.

In the beginning, there were a lot of products for cooking.We had a lot of eggs.

I’d make shakshuka.I’d make omelets.

I’d make salads and soups using tomatoes and beans and whatever else they gave me,” said Har, a father of four.“This is what I would do.I would cook for the five hostages and the five terrorists.

The terrorists would take the food and take it to another place where they could watch it,” he said, explaining how their mistrustful captors would hide the ingredients when he wasn’t cooking.“Only once, one of the terrorists said, ‘Thank you for the food,’ ” Har said.But as the war dragged on, their food supplies dwindled, and the terrorists became increasingly selfish – even while three of the hostages had been freed, leaving just him and his friend Fernando for the terrorists to feed.“Slowly, slowly, the food became less.First there were no more eggs.

Then there were fewer pitas.In the last days, it was just Fernando and me, and we shared one pita a day, half for Fernando and half for me.

And we were eating a little piece of the pita at a time so there would be enough to last all day,” he said, noting the two were also sharing a single liter of water per day.“That was all the food we had, and we tried to survive on it,” he added, telling how it reached a point where he and Fernando were hiding their food from the terrorists to avoid being starved to death.“Otherwise one of the terrorists ...