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| Freed hostage Rom Braslavski says Islamic Jihad captors sexually assaulted and tortured him |
| 2025-11-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] Freed hostage Rom Braslavski reveals that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him captive in Gaza repeatedly sexually assaulted and tortured him. In an excerpt that the Daily Mail published of an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 news, which is due to be aired in full Thursday night, Braslavski says that his captors stripped him naked and tied him up before starving him. “I was torn apart, dying, with no food,” he is quoted as saying. “I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?'” “It was sexual violence — and its main purpose was to humiliate me,” he continues. “The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what he did.” Braslavski’s testimony appears to make him the first male former hostage to report being sexually assaulted in captivity, which a number of freed female captives have recalled suffering. “It’s hard for me to talk about that part specifically. I don’t like to talk about it. It’s hard, It was the most horrific thing,” Braslavski adds. “It’s something even the Nazis didn’t do. During Hitler’s time, they wouldn’t have done things like this. You just pray for it to stop. And while I was there — every day, every beating — I’d say to myself, ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up to another hell. And another. And another. It doesn’t end.'” “I came back from meeting the devil.” Days after he was freed from Gaza last month, Braslavski’s mother said he was whipped and beaten “with things that I will not even mention,” and that his captors also pressured him to convert to Islam, offering him extra food and better conditions, but he resisted. They also told him, falsely, that Israelis were too weak or uninterested to protest on his behalf, while inflating the IDF’s death toll and the damage inflicted on Israel. Related: Rom Braslavski 08/05/2025 Two musicians backtrack after signing petition urging end to ‘Gaza horror’ Rom Braslavski 08/04/2025 Idiot: Mother of slain hostage: We should surrender to Hamas to save remaining hostages Rom Braslavski 08/04/2025 PM said seeking ‘decisive military victory’ in Gaza, putting hostage families on edge |
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