A former Israeli hostage has recounted enduring repeated sexual assaults by his Hamas captor, stating that he was blindfolded and stripped naked at knifepoint.
Guy Gilboa Dalal was snatched from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, and forced into a tunnel network deep beneath Gaza, where he spent 739 days in captivity.
In a powerful new interview with Israel‘s First Lady Michal Herzog, Dalal detailed the horrific sexual assaults he endured, stating he had no choice but to submit and stay silent to survive.
His account comes in light of the UN Secretary-General’s recent report on conflict-related sexual violence, which stated that
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