Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" regime mistreatment of its hostages

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Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" regime mistreatment of its hostages


Some of imumane treatment of hostages by cruel sadistic racist Arab supremacist Islamic-fascist "Palestinian" regime in Gaza - from Oct 7.














  • 'I was alone, chained by the ankles with a metal shackle, unable to move, and forced to beg to use the bathroom...'I was sexually assaulted by the Hamas terrorist who guarded me. He forced me into the shower, following closely with his gun aimed at me. His heavy breathing and predatory stare were terrifying... I was powerless to stop it. 'I had no one to comfort me and had to 'behave' for the man who had just violated me in the most horrifying way.'Israeli hostage describes horrific rape and torture she suffered while held by Hamas. (Daily Mail, 10.24.24).





  • "Operating" primitively on a girl's wound with no anesthesia and laughing as she moans in pain.


  • Yarden Bibas whose kids "were murdered in cold blood.. They [his captors] used to tell me, ‘Ah, doesn’t matter. You’ll get a new wife. Get new kids.."


  • Keith Siegel, 65: “I witnessed a young woman who was being tortured by the terrorist. I mean literal, you know, torture, not just in a figurative sense. They made you watch it. Yeah, I saw sexual assault with female hostages.” His situation worsened after his wife, Aviva, was released during the November 2023 ceasefire. “The terrorists became very mean and very cruel and violent... They were beating me and starving me... They would often eat in front of me and not offer me food."


  • For showers, captives were given half a bucket of cold water once a month, with a cup to pour it over themselves.


  • Their heads and private parts were shaved. They did this to amuse themselves.





  • Throughout his time in Gaza, Mr. Siegel’s captors would spit on him and scream at him, he said. They would kick him as he lay on the floor and withhold food from him and other hostages, even as the captors ate.


  • As Mr. Siegel stepped into the room, panic washed over him: He found himself in the audience of a “medieval-style” trial by torture, he said. The woman had been bound, and the guards were beating her with primitive tools. They demanded that she “tell the truth,” Mr. Siegel said. He was instructed to assist with getting a confession. “I was told to go into the room and to tell the person that the torturing will continue until they admit what they were being accused of,” he said. The episode was one of many that defined the horrific experience that Mr. Siegel, an Israeli American originally from North Carolina, and his fellow hostages endured in captivity. Keith Siegel, a Former Hostage, Recounts Captivity in Gaza (NYT, 4.16.25).




  • Israeli hostages have revealed the brutal conditions they endured in Hamas captivity – severe malnutrition, psychological torment, and forced confinement in cages.Hostages starved, cages in captivity. (JPost, 2.2.25).


  • Romi Gonen's mother: "For the first time, I gave her bolognese because I wanted her to enjoy it, and she was finally able to. And we’re talking about three weeks since her release. “It was shocking, it was horrifying,” she was cited as saying. “It’s not that we didn’t expect it because we saw how the girls came out too, and they had also lost an extreme amount of weight," she added. But I think this is an escalation, and as time goes on, we will see even more severe cases.” Hostage food deprivation. Hamas doesn't provide sufficient food for the hostages, at times intentionally starving them and supplying them with food that is of very poor quality. One of the things she first noticed of her daughter when she returned from 471 days in captivity was "the long, protruding fingers," adding, “It was simply shocking.” The recovery was slow. “Physical recovery is slow, and it takes time for the body to even feel hunger again.Freed hostage Romi Gonen's mother details Hamas's starvation tactics. (JPost, 2.9.25).


  • Ohad Ben-Ami (56) other hostages were held "30 meters underground, in six meters of concrete and sand without air to breathe." “We received food twice a day that amounted to 700 calories at best,” former hostage Ohad Ben-Ami said as he detailed his hunger and sickness in Hamas captivity. “Most of our time was spent trying to guess what we would get to eat, when it would happen, whether we would get a whole pita for each person or just half, whether there would also be a cup of rice, [and] whether we got leftovers from our captors,” They didn’t know when they would next receive food or if they would have to save some for the next day. They would also divide the food evenly among the six of them. He described the common sickness that spread among the hostages. “When someone is sick, everyone is sick.”Starved and tormented: Ohad Ben-Ami shares details of 491 days in Hamas captivity. (JPost, 3.31.25).


  • (Hersh was one of six hostages who were murdered in captivity and whose bodies were recovered from the Gaza Strip Augus 2024). “My name is Rachel and I will always be the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin…the beautiful six, Eden, Ori, Elmog, Alex, Carmel, and Hersh, had been held in an airless pitch-black tunnel 20 meters underground. It was only a meter sixty in height and just 60 centimeters wide,” said Hersh’s mother in her remarks. “There was no electricity nor plumbing. All of them were emaciated. Hersh, who was 1.85 meters tall, weighed 53 kilograms. Delightful Eden was 1.60 meters tall. She weighed just 35 kilograms. They were all bullet-ridden and filthy, having not showered in months.”Hersh's mother reveals shocking details about her son's murder (INN, 5.1.25).


  • 16-year-old Dafna Elyakim, who was taken hostage during Hamas’ October 7 assault on southern Israel: “One of the terrorists kept touching me,” she said. “He said everyone else would be freed, and I would stay with him so he could marry me.” Elyakim added that the same man insisted on escorting her to the shower, but she refused.



  • Tal Shoham: Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I’m free.

Then I remember the silence. The darkness. The wet concrete. And the two young men who were lying beside me, deep underground, who are still there. Their names are Evyatar David and Guy Dalal. We were held together along with Omer Wenkert for eight and a half months in a Hamas tunnel—just 40 ft. long, less than 3 ft. wide. We slept on soaked mattresses, shared a single pita a day, and took turns whispering stories from home to keep ourselves sane. We were strangers when we entered that darkness. But we became brothers. It’s been more than 100 days since President Trump returned to the White House and the ceasefire deal that brought me, Omer, and dozens of others back was achieved. I haven’t been back above ground for that long—but even now, every breath of fresh air, every step in the sun, every quiet moment with my family feels like something sacred. Time feels different now. I carry it more carefully. Because I know how quickly time can run out—and how brutal each passing day is for those still living in captivity. I spent 505 days as a hostage—held deep beneath the ground. We were watched constantly by a surveillance camera. A bomb was planted above us, rigged to detonate if Israeli forces came too close. We were told we would be blown up if anyone tried to save us. We were threatened, degraded, and at times tortured—not treated as people, but as objects to be controlled and broken. I am not a soldier. I was kidnapped on Oct. 7 from my in-laws’ home in Kibbutz Be’eri. My wife and children were with me. When terrorists couldn’t break open the door of our safe room, they came in through the window. They dragged me out, threw me into a trunk, and then paraded me through the streets of Gaza. Before we were separated, I looked into my nine-year-old son's terrified eyes and made a choice no parent should ever face. I told him the truth—that I didn’t know if we were going to die. I couldn’t lie to him in what might have been our final moments together. For 50 agonizing days after that, I did not know if my family had survived. It was a rare flicker of hope when I learned in November they were about to be released. Evyatar and Guy, both 22 years old, had been taken from the Nova music festival. Their friends were slaughtered around them. By the time we met in captivity, they were in terrible shape—starved, handcuffed, terrified. For weeks, they’d been fed almost nothing. Their hands were bound behind their backs, their ankles tied, their heads covered with plastic bags. But somehow, they still had spirit. During those last eight and a half months we spent together in the tunnel, they held on. The men who held us didn’t see us as human. They tortured us for fun. Sometimes they would light pieces of paper on fire to suck up the small amount of oxygen from the tunnel. We would choke and have to lie on the floor to avoid suffocating. We came up with daily rituals just to remember who we were. In a place built to break us, we held each other up. We became a unit. We became family. When I walked out of that tunnel in February, I made a vow: I would speak for those who can’t. President Trump, I was released in a deal your administration helped progress. Your decision to make the hostages a priority helped bring many people home. I am one of them. I’m here today because this issue was treated with the urgency it demands. But we are not done. Fifty-nine hostages remain in Hamas captivity. And every day that passes makes it harder for them to survive. Hamas didn’t release us out of goodwill. They responded to pressure—the kind that comes from international focus and relentless advocacy. I am asking you to do that again to bring every hostage home—both the living and the dead... We can’t let military momentum override moral clarity. Evyatar and Guy are not statistics. They are sons. Friends. Music lovers. Gentle, funny, full of life. They deserve to walk in the sun again. They deserve a future. I have seen the darkness. I have felt the weight of airless days, of hunger, of silence. But I also know what it means to breathe againI Am a Former Hamas Hostage. Here’s My Message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. (Time. 5.9.25).Tal Shoham reveals the horrors of captivity in a letter to Trump and Netanyahu: "They tortured us for pleasure." (Mako N12, 5.10.25).



  • Tortured by Hamas, known as ‘the American’: Edan Alexander’s ordeal in captivity. Held in a cage and shackled for months, Alexander was left weak and unable to walk by himself; only recently did Hamas begin feeding him more regularly, apparently ahead of his release.Tortured by Hamas, known as ‘the American’ (Ynet, 5.12.25).



"Starved of Humanity. Hamas ghouls force Jewish hostage in Gaza to dig his own grave." NY Post Cover for August 3, 2025 | New York Post. [2] [3] (NY Post, 8.3.25).

"Hamas claims hostage Evyatar David shares meager rations with captors, but a well-fed terrorist’s hand caught on camera tells a different story; survivors and family denounce the starvation as sadistic propaganda." Revealing detail in hostage video exposes Hamas starvation hoax. (Ynet, 8.2.25).


“They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, causing me to lose my breath. They dragged me across the floor, lifted me, and threw me against the wall. They pointed guns at me, hit me, and tried to film me with my phone. "I raised my hands, told them I was Mexican, begged them not to hurt me, not to rape me, not to shoot me, just to let me go. The only thing I could think of was having my family see me end my life like this. The terrorists beat me, humiliated me, touched me all over, threw me on a motorcycle, and took me into Gaza.” While she was on the way to Gaza, she lost consciousness when the captors began to touch her and sexually abuse her. She woke up lying naked on rocks surrounded by the Hamas terrorists. To prevent them from assaulting her, she told them she was on her period. They then threw a hijab at her. While in captivity, she lost 12 kg (24 lbs) in 55 days. While the hostages were fed 10 chickpeas or a piece of dry flat bread a day, the terrorists had meat, rice, and vegetables, which they ate in front of the captives. She recalled that the captors would wake up the hostages in the middle of the night for cruel interrogations. At one point in her captivity, she was held in Nasser Hospital with other hostages, in an area of the hospital that only Hamas terrorists could enter. While in captivity, she learned her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, who Hamas is still holding, was also a captive. She begged her captors to see him. The terrorists kept giving her tasks to do, saying that if she did them, she would be able to see him later. "Later never came. I did not get to see Matan." Her captors cruelly played with her emotions. At one point, she was told she was being taken home, but instead, she was brought to a tunnel where several other hostages were held, including David Cunio, who is still a hostage. She called on human rights groups and “everyone who claims to care” to raise their voices and stand up for those still held in captivity. “Why is our pain treated as less? Why are our histories questioned, erased? I am here not for myself, but for every woman and man who did not make it home. For every voice that was ignored. For the 50 hostages still in Gaza.” In Spanish, she said, “I am also here today as a Mexican woman, because that is where I was born, where the cartels kill and torture people. “They call them as they are - terrorists, criminals, delinquents. The world doesn’t hesitate to condemn them, so that's why I wonder why Hamas, which burns children alive, rapes women, mutilates bodies, kidnaps children and adults, why are they not condemned in the same way? Why is Hamas considered differently? Why is it not considered the terrorist group that it is? Why are Jewish groups questioned when others are immediately believed? It's not just hypocrisy, it is betrayal.” “I was released after 55 days, but my soul remains with the 50 hostages still in Gaza.” 'They beat me, humiliated me': Ex-hostage describes traumatic captivity in Gaza (JPost, 8.27.25).


He was treated “like a dog,” he said, fed once a day — usually a pita bread and two cans of food for four people — and losing 20 kilograms (44 pounds). “We were shackled for the entire time,” he said. The ties were only loosened for short showers, around every two months.


Released hostages 10.13.25:


  • Ariel Cunio.

Held completely alone for the entire two-year captivity in tunnels across Gaza, with no access to media or information about his family's survival. Unaware for months that his brother David and partner Arbel Yehoud were alive, leading to profound psychological isolation and uncertainty.


  • David Cunio.

Held in multiple tunnels with Nimrod Cohen and Eitan Horn, denied all access to media throughout captivity. Learned of his twin brother Eitan's survival only during a brief encounter with Yarden Bibas after a Hamas propaganda video was filmed, enduring extended periods of isolation from family news and external events.


  • Gali Berman.

Held separately from his twin brother Ziv in the same city, completely cut off from media access and unaware of his impending reunion. Terrorists spoke Hebrew to him during captivity, adding to psychological manipulation; deprived of daylight, basic sanitation, and family contact for nearly two years.


  • Ziv Berman.

Held separately from his twin brother Gali in the same city, with no media access and no knowledge of reunion plans. Subjected to Hebrew communication by terrorists, enduring prolonged underground confinement without daylight or sanitation, fostering deep emotional and informational isolation.


  • Elkana Bohbot.

Chained in tunnels for most of the two years, losing all sense of time and space, which caused severe disorientation. On his wedding anniversary, begged a guard for a shower but was initially denied and forced to sit; when allowed, it highlighted the extreme deprivation of hygiene and basic human dignity.


  • Matan Angrest.

As an IDF soldier, subjected to severe torture in the first months, including savage beatings that caused blackouts and loss of consciousness; treated for finger and hand injuries without anesthesia, leading to further medical complications. Covered with black sacks and dragged during abduction; spent long periods in dark tunnels where walls collapsed during IDF airstrikes, burying him in rubble multiple times; confined to a dark tunnel for the last four months; experienced flashbacks triggering unconsciousness; thin and weak upon release, with fragmented memories of the kidnapping and battle where he believed his friends were killed.


  • Avinatan Or.

Held completely alone in a central Gaza camp for nearly the entire two years, with minimal contact even with Palestinians or other Israelis, resulting in extreme psychological isolation. Systematically starved, losing 30-40% of his body weight; provided very little information about events in Israel post-October 7; attempted a failed escape, underscoring the desperation of his harsh, food-scarce conditions; arrived exhausted and underweight but mentally resilient. Hid prior IDF service in Sayeret Rimon.


  • Evyatar David.

Endured both psychological and physical abuse, including months of starvation that left him emaciated with visible ribs, as shown in a Hamas video where he stated he was barely eating or drinking water. Kept without shoes, continuously chained in some periods, and deprived of basic sanitation in dark, humid tunnels; separated from friend Guy Gilboa-Dalal for six weeks (and fully two months recently); guards continued starvation even after the shocking video, only increasing food slightly before release to "fatten him up," leaving him weak and underweight.


  • Alon Ohel.

Chained in the same tunnel for almost the entire two years, enduring constant pain and deprivation of daylight and basic sanitation, resulting in gaunt appearance, closely cropped hair, and prolonged malnutrition. Moved unexpectedly just 40 days before release to a central Gaza tunnel after hours of journeying, deliberately positioned as a human shield during an IDF operation to capture Gaza City, heightening the terror of being used as leverage in active combat zones.


  • Omri Miran.

Moved between 23 different locations across Gaza, both in tunnels and above ground, for 738 days, mentally tracking each day without writing to maintain sanity amid disorientation. Starved while guards ate in front of him; treatment worsened with IDF ground operations in March, including continuous chaining without shoes and sleeping barefoot on cold ground; deprived of daylight and sanitation for months, leading to paleness and extreme malnutrition upon release.


  • Yosef Chaim Ohana.

As a former IDF combat soldier, survived unimaginable torture methods, including confinement with six other men in a tiny underground pit where they couldn't sit, only stand and lean against the wall, with critically low oxygen levels risking suffocation. Held in tunnels for nearly two years, with severe abuse post-deal signing when moved deeper underground; hid military background to avoid worse treatment, enduring beatings and isolation that made him fear lifelong or decade-long captivity.


  • Rom Braslavski.

Held alone for the entire captivity, starved to extreme malnutrition while guards ate in front of him; shackled continuously and forced to sleep barefoot on cold ground without shoes. 'They demanded he convert to Islam’: Rom Braslavski's mother says son was alone for two years. Psychological abuse inflicted on Israeli hostages included repeated efforts to induce him to fast during Ramadan or read the Quran in return for food and better conditions. As an active IDF logistics soldier, hid his military service; conditions worsened during IDF operations, including chaining in dark tunnels with no sanitation or daylight for nearly two years. After release, Ram asked to see the sky...


  • Bar Kupershtein.

As an active IDF combat soldier in the Nahal Brigade, hid his military background during captivity; endured underground confinement in tunnels with severe abuse, including starvation, beatings, and lack of daylight/sanitation for nearly two years. Provided medical aid on October 7 before capture, but faced harsh treatment in humid, dark conditions leading to respiratory infections and skin issues upon release. Freed Israeli hostages recount brutal beatings, starvation and years underground in Hamas captivity (NY Post, 10.14.25), Two years of chains, torture, and isolation: What is known about the hostages' time in captivity? (JPost, 10.14.25); Avinatan Or was systematically starved in captivity (INN, 10.14.25); 'Seven men in a pit': Freed hostage Yosef Chaim Ohana's father reveals horrific abuse by Hamas (YNet, 10.15.25); 'They demanded he convert to Islam’: Rom Braslavski's mother says son was alone for two years (JPost, 10.15.25); After he asked to see the sky, people around world dedicate photos of the heavens to freed hostage (TOI, 10.18.25).


  • Eitan (Eytan) Mor.

Was "beaten, starved, and hidden in 40 locations across Gaza, had stretches with almost no food." The "first three days bound with his hands behind his back and the first year held entirely alone." Israeli Father: My Son Was Beaten, Starved, and Hidden in 40 Locations Across Gaza. (YWN, 10.19.25).


  • Guy Gilboa Dalal.

23-year-old survivor of the Nova music festival, was released after 738 days in Hamas captivity, where he endured starvation, abuse, and psychological torment. Kidnapped on October 7, 2023, alongside his friend Evyatar David, Guy suffered severe physical and mental trauma, including deliberate starvation to make them "poster children of skin and bones." Now home, he faces hearing loss, constant pain, and a long recovery. His brother Gal, who escaped the attack and fought for his release, revealed the emotional reunion with Evyatar and the ongoing challenges. The family has launched a fundraising campaign to support Guy’s rehabilitation, emphasizing the need for time and resources to help him rebuild his life.‘Poster child of skin and bones’: The long road ahead for freed hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal after brutal Hamas abuse. (Ynet, 10.16.25)


  • Segev Kalfon.

27-year-old abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, first thrown into a mosque, endured 738 days in Hamas captivity. He was brutally beaten for refusing to change his name, mocked for its similarity to an Arabic word, and forced to dig tunnels while held underground in Gaza. Kalfon faced starvation, lack of water, and constant threats of death, spending 11 months in a tunnel with other hostages. We dug a pit for a toilet — for us and for them — because they called us ‘worthless [sic] Jews,’” Beatings intensified when Hamas captors reacted to news of Israeli actions or saw certain political figures. Despite refusing to participate in a propaganda video and surviving near-fatal bombardments, Kalfon described a grueling existence where "death became [his] best friend." Freed earlier this month, he now grapples with the lasting impact of his ordeal. 'Death became my friend’: former hostage Segev Kalfon tells of life in Hamas tunnels. (Ynet, 10.20.25)


Freed Hostage Reveals Sexual Assault in Gaza Captivity (Nov/2025):

  • Guy Gilboa Dalal. In an exclusive interview with Channel 12 News, Guy Gilboa Dalal, a 41-year-old Israeli who was held captive in Gaza for two years and recently freed, disclosed a harrowing incident of sexual assault by one of his captors. While showering in captivity, Gilboa Dalal was dragged out by a guard who touched him inappropriately and threatened to kill him if he told anyone. Gilboa Dalal protested, saying, “This is forbidden in Islam,” highlighting the violation even under the captor's own religious standards.

This testimony aligns with accounts from other released hostages, underscoring a pattern of sexual violence and humiliation used as tools of torture in Gaza:

  • Rom Braslavski, another survivor, described being stripped naked, tied up, and subjected to sexual abuse daily, calling it “the most horrific thing”. He emphasized the constant psychological torment, stating, “No one went through what I went through... It was hell every day.”
  • Aviva Siegel, who testified before the UN, recounted witnessing a young girl forced to shower with a terrorist and perform oral sex, as well as a 16-year-old girl compelled to shower in front of captors. Siegel highlighted the profound loss of dignity and the systematic nature of these abuses.

‘This is forbidden in Islam,’ I said—‘Tell anyone and I’ll kill you,’ he replied: Freed hostage reveals sexual assault in Gaza. (Ynet, 11.19.25)


As she opened it up more: Medicalized Assault: While suffering from a gunshot wound to her arm, Gonen was assaulted by a captor posing as a "nurse." Under the guise of treating her injury, he followed her into the shower and brutally assaulted her while she was physically powerless. Constant Harassment: During one 16-day stretch, two captors named Ibrahim and Mohammed subjected her to relentless stalking and physical harassment. They followed her into bathrooms, watched her use the toilet, and touched her legs and thighs despite her attempts to fight them off. Death Threats and Enslavement: In one instance, after a violent assault in a bathroom where the captor expressed "ecstasy" during the act, he held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. Gonen stated she lived in constant fear of becoming a lifelong "sex slave." Attempts at Silencing. Gonen revealed that the abuse became known to Hamas leadership. She was taken into a tunnel to speak with Izz a Din al-Haddad, now the leader of Hamas in Gaza, who attempted to strike a "deal." He promised to place her at the top of the release list if she agreed to remain silent about the sexual violence she suffered. Aftermath and Advocacy. Despite the threats and the trauma she continues to process, Gonen stated: "No one will silence me anymore... I am much stronger than it." Her testimony aligns with a July 2025 report by the Dinah Project, which documented that at least 13 other women and two men witnessed or experienced similar sexual violence while held in Gaza.No longer silenced: Freed Israeli hostage details fear of being made a ‘sex slave’ for Hamas terrorists: ‘No one will silence me anymore’. (NY Post, 1.4.26).

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