Hamas terrorists have been accused of branding two teenage brothers with a motorcycle exhaust to stop them escaping.

Yagil, who turned 13 while in captivity, and his older sibling Or Yaakov, 16, were abducted by gun-toting terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and taken back to Gaza with more than 200 other hostages.

The young brothers survived more than 50 days in captivity before they were released on November 27 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal which the White House is ‘working by the hour’ to try and extend.

Yagil and Or Yakoov’s uncle Yaniv Yaakov has now revealed the horrors that the child hostages were subjected to in Gaza.

‘They told us stories about what they went through inside Gaza. The stories are horrible,’ Yaniv told an event in North Macedonia with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, The Times of Israel reports.

‘Each child that was taken by Hamas was taken on a motorbike and they took every child, took his leg and put it on the exhaust of that motorbike, so they have a burn so they will be marked if they run, if they escape, so [Hamas] can find them.’

Yagil, who turned 13 while in captivity, and his older sibling Or Yaakov, 16, were branded with a ‘motorcycle exhaust’ by Hamas, their uncle has said

The brothers were released by masked Hamas terrorists on November 27 during a temporary ceasefire

Yagil Yaakov, 13, is pictured as he returns to Israel in an IAF helicopter on Monday following more than 50 days as a hostage

He added: ‘They were drugged, they were treated so bad, but at least they are with us.’

The boys had been asleep and home alone when terrorists launched their barbaric attack on their village.

They sealed themselves in a safe room and called their mother, Renana Gome, who survived an attack on another Kibbutz where she had been staying with her daughter.

The boys’ mother previously said they were ‘scared to death’ and had to whisper to her over the phone as she heard voices speaking in Arabic in the background.

Yagil’s older brother desperately tried to hold the door shut as the terrorists forced their way in.

Tragically, the last thing the mother heard her youngest son saying was: ‘Don’t take me, I’m too young,’ before the phone cut out.

Yagil and Or Yakoov were captured along with their father Yair Yaakov and his partner Meirav Tal, both of who are still thought to be in captivity. 

The brothers were among 11 Israeli hostages released on Monday. The group also included mother Sharon Aloni Cunio, and her three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly.

Another mother and seven children were released on what was the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas.

The boys had been asleep and home alone when terrorists launched their barbaric attack on their village. Pictured: Yagil (R) and Or Yaakov (L)

Negotiators are working to renew the pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a senior Israeli official reiterated plans to resume the war unless the terrorist group agreed to release more hostages.

After two last-minute extensions, the enemies marked on Thursday the seventh day of a Qatari-mediated truce with the exchange of eight hostages and 30 Palestinian prisoners as well as the infusion of more humanitarian aid into the shattered Gaza Strip.

Egyptian and Qatari mediators, who succeeded in achieving the earlier deals, were working to negotiate a further truce of two days, Egypt’s official state media agency said.

Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was open to continuing the ceasefire if Hamas committed to further hostage releases. 

Israel had previously set the release of 10 hostages a day as the minimum it would accept to pause its assault.

Mia Schem (pictured, centre) was one of the two women released by Hamas last night after the ceasefire deal was extended minutes before it was due to time out

The hostages released last night, pictured top-left to bottom right: Bilal and Aisha Ziyadne, 18 and 17, Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, Nili Margalit, 40, Shani Goren, 29, Amit Soussana, 40, Sapir Cohen, 29, and Mia Schem, 21

‘We’re ready for all possibilities…. Without that, we’re going back to the combat,’ he said on CNN.

Before the prior truce was due to expire early on Thursday, Hamas and its ally, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, put their fighters on alert for a resumption of hostilities.

Israel has sworn to annihilate Hamas, which rules Gaza, in response to the October 7 rampage by the terrorist group, when Israel says gunmen killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.

Israel retaliated with intense bombardment and a ground invasion. Palestinian health authorities deemed reliable by the United Nations say more than 15,000 Gazans have been confirmed killed.

When the ceasefire first came into effect a week ago, Israel was preparing to turn the focus of its operation to southern Gaza after its relentless seven-week assault to the north.