Overview
- In a televised interview broadcast November 19, Guy Gilboa-Dalal said a Hamas captor sexually assaulted him and threatened to kill him if he ever spoke about it.
- He described being held at gunpoint with a knife to his throat during the attack after being dragged from a shower and prevented from dressing.
- Gilboa-Dalal, abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, said he spent about 739 days in captivity before his October 12 release under a U.S.-brokered deal.
- His disclosure follows former hostage Rom Braslavsky’s interview in which he described severe torture, humiliation and sexual assaults during his detention in Gaza.
- Earlier this month, ex-hostage Aviva Siegal testified to the UN Committee Against Torture that she witnessed the sexual assault of a teenage girl, while Hamas has rejected such accounts as unfounded.