“It was like we said in captivity,” David said, addressing Gilboa-Dalal. “‘At least we are in captivity together.’ It was the same thing. We shared the same fate.”

“I understood that surviving captivity is one thing. Truly recovering is another battle entirely,” David wrote in a social media post.

After 738 days in Hamas captivity, David says returning home did not end his ordeal, describing flashbacks, post-trauma and a long battle to rebuild his life