2024-09-04 09:44:31
Tel Aviv: An Israeli woman who escaped Hamas’s captivity has revealed that her 55 days spent in Gaza were like hell. She was tortured and worse, she was sexually assaulted. 40-year-old Amit Sousana was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists during the 7 October 2023 attack. From Israel, she was taken to Gaza, where she was kept chained in a house for three weeks. Sousana told the Sunday Times in an interview that she lived in terror for several weeks. Every day she felt that this was the last day of her life.
tied with iron chains
The victim said that after her capture, she was taken to a house in Gaza. She was tied with iron chains to a fixed iron bar. She stayed like this for 3 weeks, where two people always guarded her. She was kept in a dark room. She said that while she was bathing, one of the kidnappers sexually abused her at gunpoint. She said that he was standing there with a gun and laughing. I got up, took a small towel and covered myself. He came to my head with a gun and tried to tear the towel, but I did not let him do so.
Rape happened in the children’s room
Sousana further said that the Hamas terrorist punched her but still she did not give up resistance. After this the guard took her to the children’s room in the house, where she was raped. The kidnappers abused her for several days. The Hamas terrorists forced the victim to wear clean clothes for their entertainment. In a documentary Sousana revealed how scared she was when she was caught. She was paraded on the road. She told that there were ten men around me.
Hamas has denied the allegations
She said that ‘I was really afraid that they would rape me there and that they would drag me through the streets of Gaza. They would parade my body around. I was more afraid of this than being killed.’ The terrorists released Sousana during the ceasefire in November last year. Hamas spokesperson Bassam Naim has denied any allegations of sexual abuse of prisoners. In a statement given to the New York Times, he said that Sousana’s statement of sexual abuse is difficult to believe. He said that for us a woman’s body is sacred.
The terror group Hamas has repeatedly denied that its members sexually abused hostages or victims of the October 7 attack. However, a United Nations (UN) report released last month said there was clear and convincing evidence that some hostages had suffered sexual abuse.