Hospital prepares to receive freed Israeli hostages: 'We are inventing captivity medicine'

Several of the hostages will be brought from Gaza to the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.

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"It is a privilege," says the head of nursing. "These are the moments, when I'm 70 or 80, these are the two or three moments I will remember. They symbolise so many values – as a nurse, as a mother, as a woman, as an Israeli."

Twenty living hostages are due to be released under the terms of the agreement between Israel and Hamas. Several of them will be brought to this hospital.

It will be the third time that the hostages' unit has gone operational. The BBC visited the unit on Saturday, when the medical team learned the identities of the hostages they would be treating.

"There is no such field as captivity medicine, and we are inventing it," said Dr Steinman told the BBC.