A BRITISH hostage freed from Gaza has spoken of her pain after a Palestinian poet who insulted her was awarded a top prize.
, 28, endured 471 days in but writer Mosab Abu Toha, 32, questioned whether she was actually held captive.
After Toha was handed a 2025 Pulitzer Prize, when she was snatched in October 2023, said: “For almost 500 days I lived in terror.
“I was starved and abused.
“Imagine my pain when I saw you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.
“He is not a courageous writer.
“By honouring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.”;
Toha won the prize for his portrayal of the in The New Yorker.
But he has mocked hostages on social media, labelling some “killers”;, and called reports of murdered children “propaganda”;.
In a post about Spurs fan Emily — who has dual nationality and completed compulsory national service in — he wrote: “This soldier close to the border with a city she and her country have been occupying is called a hostage?”;
