‘I Was Scared They Would R— Me And Parade Me’

‘I was scared they would r<pe me and parade me round’ Those were part of the horrific accounts of an Israeli woman who was sexually assaulted while being held hostage in Gaza.

Amit Soussana, 40, among those taken hostage by Hamas during their October 7 attacks on Israel and released 55 days later, related her experience to the Daily Mail.

According to her, she was surrounded and taken away by ten men, and although she tried to fight them off, she could not.

She was eventually transported in Gaza and chained up for three weeks in a dark room, she recalled.

Ms Soussana related her harrowing experiences in a new documentary ‘Screams Before Silence’, “There were ten men around me. The feeling that they’re taking me like I’m some kind of object, I couldn’t stand it.

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‘My instinct was just to fight, and to do what I can. I was really scared that they were going to rape me there, and that they were going to drag me through Gaza streets and parade my body around. I feared that more than being killed.’

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Ms Soussana, an Israeli lawyer, said she was then taken to Gaza and kept in a dark room for three weeks where she was watched by a guard.

‘I was chained for three weeks in Gaza. I was kept in a really dark room without being able to move,’ she said.

‘Whenever I needed to go and use the bathroom I needed to ask for permission.

‘His name was Muhammad. He used to sit on the bed in front of me wearing his shorts.

‘Lying down I remember I couldn’t look at him – I was just looking away and covering myself with a blanket so I wouldn’t have to look at him. It made me feel really uncomfortable.’

‘He also kept asking me, do I like sex, do I have sex with my boyfriend, and whenever he talked about it I just giggled and said ”oh come on stop, stop”, trying to change the subject.

‘I knew he was up to something. I knew that something bas was going to happen.’

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Ms Soussana described how she was given sanitary towels for her period and ordered to take a shower after her monthly cycle ended.

‘One day Muhammad came and gave me women’s sanitary pads,’ she said.

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‘He said ”when you get your period, after that, you will take a shower, and you’ll wash your clothes”. And he kept repeating that a couple of time a day.

‘Then I got my period, and the period was just for one day, but I fooled him to think that the period was continuing, until I could not lie anymore.’

The female hostage claimed she was sexually assaulted, as well as beaten and tortured, while she was held in Gaza for 55 days.

The Israeli lawyer was released during a ceasefire in November alongside 21-year-old Mia Schem.