by Jerusalem Post Staff
Former hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal spoke for the first time about how a Hamas terrorist sexually assaulted him while he was held in captivity during an interview with N12.
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Content warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as sexual assault and abuse.
Former hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal recalled for the first time the sexual abuse he endured from a Hamas terrorist while he was held in captivity in the Gaza Strip, during an interview with N12 on Saturday.
“One day, a terrorist took me to their room and sat me on a chair, blindfolded. He covered my hands and said to me, 'You haven't seen girls in a long time, right? You watch porn, want to watch porn, want me and you to make a porn movie?' He came up behind me, started touching me all over my body, and I froze at that moment. He actually started touching me and kissing the back of my head, then my back,” Gilboa-Dalal described.
He then describes how the terrorist began touching his chest and telling him he loved him, which caused him intense anxiety and a rapid heartbeat. “What, are you afraid of me?” Guy said the terrorist asked him and then suddenly took out a gun and a knife to warn him that he “was gonna kill me if I told anyone about what he was doing.”
In another instance, he was again taken to a separate room where he was stripped of his clothes and thrown to the ground. “I saw that he (the captor) started taking off his pants and asked him: ‘Are you crazy? Aren’t you a Muslim? What you are going to do is forbidden by Islam.’ I couldn’t see him, as I was facing the wall, but I felt him rubbing himself on my back for several minutes. I literally froze, I didn’t know how to deal with that situation,” Gilboa-Dalal added.
Gilboa-Dalal's story of beatings, torture, and liberation
From the first moment he was kidnapped, Gilboa-Dalal was beaten while being paraded around Gaza. “Civilians would hit us, call us ‘pigs’ and only stop when things went out of hand,” he revealed during the interview.Gilboa-Dalal said that he was first put in a shelter: “It's very easy to lose it there. A small corridor, everything is gray. I tried as much as possible to activate my brain, I tried to learn Arabic, to learn about Islam and the Quran, even if it meant converting to Islam, to maintain good contact with them. To absorb as much information as possible and keep my mind running.”
He also described the systematic starvation, noting that it meant surviving on just one portion of pita bread a day. “It's not just a rumbling stomach and hunger; it's weakness throughout the body. You can't move without pain, and you can't get up without seeing black. A physical decline. Dying slowly.”
When he was finally released, he decided to take an extra 40 minutes to wash and shave, so he would look better when he reunited with his family: “I wanted them to see me well, as a human being.”
“The first thing I wanted back home was to get a Coke. It might be something small, but for me, it was amazing, it's the ability to choose what I want. It's the freedom that came back to me,” he added.
Finally, he spoke about his willingness to move forward and his dream of going to Japan. “Even if Arabic replaced the Japanese that I knew before being kidnapped, I am going to travel there, maybe several times.”
"Despite all the difficult and terrible things I went through there, I found strength that I didn't believe I had within me. It is allowed to break, and I also broke down a lot there, and I cried a lot," he stressed.
Jerusalem Post Staff
Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-874821
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