Trigger warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as sexual assault. 

Freed Gaza hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal revealed that he was sexually abused during his time in Hamas captivity, N12 News reported on Wednesday.

Gilboa-Dalal stated that his guard sexually assaulted him after a shower and threatened to kill him if he told anyone.

"He let me shower, and when I finished, he dragged me out of there and didn't let me put on my clothes," Gilboa-Dalal said. "He took me back to their room and then threw me onto one of the armchairs.”

"The terrorist started touching me all over my body. I froze. I said to him, 'You're joking, right? This is forbidden in Islam.' He held a rifle to my head and a knife to my throat and said to me that if I told anyone about it, he would kill me."

Screenshot from a Hamas video of Guy Gilboa-Dalal inside the tunnels under Gaza.
Screenshot from a Hamas video of Guy Gilboa-Dalal inside the tunnels under Gaza. (credit: Courtesy)

On October 7, 2023, Gilboa-Dalal was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival. That same day, Hamas released footage of him tied up in a tunnel in Gaza.

He was held in Gaza for 739 days, and was released on October 12 as part of the US-backed Gaza deal. His family previously reported that he was only allowed to shower once a month with a bucket.

Released Gaza hostages detail sexual abuse

Gilboa-Dalal is the most recent male hostage to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse during captivity. Recently, released hostages Rom Braslavski and Keith Siegel have also provided accounts of Hamas's sexual assault against male captives.

Rom Braslavski was sexually abused in captivity by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Channel 13 reported earlier this month.

The released hostage revealed that his captors stripped him naked, starved him, and tied him up while sexually assaulting him.

“They stripped me of all my clothes, my underwear, everything. They tied me up while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying, with no food."

"It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me," he said. "The goal was to crush my dignity. And that's exactly what he did."

“I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?’”

Braslavski told Channel 13 that the abuse happened frequently. “I don’t like talking about it. It’s difficult. It's something even the Nazis didn't do. During Hitler's time, they wouldn't have done things like this.

Former Gaza hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel testified before the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) in Geneva last week, recounting how they were denied their human rights, sexually abused, starved, and physically threatened during their captivity in Gaza.

"Our captors compared intimate parts of me to another hostage; they threatened us with knives, leaving us to beg to go to the bathroom," Keith Siegel stated.

"We would wait until we were absolutely about to explode so that we wouldn't anger the terrorists.  I was denied the most basic human rights. I was starved, denied water. More than once, terrorists forced me to strip naked in front of them and shaved my body."

Aviva Siegel details female hostages' sexual assault

Aviva Siegel also gave testimony about how she was forced to watch a fellow female hostage get sexually assaulted.

"I am witness to one of the girls who was with us, that the Hamas terrorist came to the bathroom, told her to get undressed, came into the shower with her, and forced her to do oral sex," Aviva Siegel stated.

"She had to smile after she did that, too. I witnessed one of the girls being forced to take a shower. She is 16 years old, she's never shown anybody her body, the Hamas terrorist just stood there and stared and smiled."