Overview
- In a Channel 12 Uvda interview, Romi Gonen says she was assaulted multiple times by different men during captivity in Gaza.
- She identifies two captors as Muhammad and Ibrahim, describing forced mattress-to-mattress sleeping, bathroom monitoring, and threats of handcuffing over a 16-day period.
- Gonen says the first assault occurred on her fourth day in Gaza by a man who presented as medical staff after she was taken to Shifa Hospital.
- She recounts a later bathroom attack lasting about half an hour and says the assailant later pressed a gun to her head and threatened to kill her if she spoke.
- Gonen says she felt able to disclose these details only now; President Isaac Herzog and her mother publicly praised her courage after the broadcast.