Israeli government spokesman Eilon Levy said in a briefing on Tuesday that the freed Israeli hostages were asked to speak to the Israeli parliament this week about sexual abuse committed by Hamas terrorists against male and female hostages in the Gaza Strip. (National Diet).
Levy said former hostage Chen Goldstein Almog, 48, told parliament that some female hostages had stopped getting their periods while in captivity. She said she hoped the female hostages would be a physical defense against becoming pregnant from rape by their captors.
Some added that Hamas terrorists reportedly dressed female hostages like dolls in order to abuse them in sadistic ways. He said male hostages were also sexually abused and raped.
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“I saw it with my own eyes,” said Aviva Siegel, a former hostage who was abducted with her husband Keith from Kibbutz Kfar Azha on October 7 and released during a ceasefire in late November. Told.
“I felt as if the girls in captivity were my own daughters. Terrorists bring in inappropriate clothes, doll clothes and turn the girls into dolls. With the doll, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want,” she told a meeting of the newly formed parliamentary group for victims of sexual and gender violence in the war against Hamas.
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Chen Goldstein Almog, who was freed with three of her four children during the ceasefire, told a hearing Tuesday that some of the women remaining in Gaza have stopped menstruating. said.
Levy spoke on the day Israelis learned that 24 Israeli soldiers had been killed the previous day. Three of the 21 soldiers, all reservists, died in the fighting in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, in a building near a border fence that collapsed in a Palestinian attack. A rocket-propelled grenade that detonates explosives while preparing a building for demolition.
In response to a question from Breitbart News, Levy said whether the heavy losses made Israelis question the cost of war or made them more determined to fight.
“The psychological toll of waking up in the morning and seeing such horrifying news is, of course, very high. All citizens are now wondering what kind of relationship they have with the hostages, or if they have any connection with them. I'm starting to find out…
“But the people of Israel understand very clearly why they are fighting this war, which is not a war of their choosing.
“They understand that they won't stop until they stop Hamas. … If we return to the policy of October 6, it will only be a matter of time before Hamas commits another atrocity.”
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