Emily Damari, the British-Israeli former hostage, described how a medic calling himself “Dr Hamas” sewed her nerves together while operating on gunshot wounds to her hand after she was kidnapped in the October 7 attack.

Ms Damari said she had “embraced” the pain and scars as she posted pictures of herself at an Israeli hospital where she had corrective surgery following her release.

Thanking the Israeli medical team for helping her on the road to recovery, she described how she was taken to the notorious Al Shifa hospital in Gaza by Hamas militants during her kidnapping. Israel has long accused Hamas of using Shifa as a base.

She said a surgeon there introduced himself as “Dr Hamas” before putting her under anaesthetic.

“And then this moment arrived – they put me in the operating room with a body in front of me, I see the blue sky that should have been grey on a day like this. I ask God to protect me.

“Then I woke up when ‘Dr Hamas’ informed me that I had two fingers missing and the wound on my foot remained open with four stitches instead of 16.”