In a courageous interview broadcast Saturday evening on Israeli Channel 12 News, former hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal exposed the severe sexual abuse he endured at the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization.
"The terrorists guarding me were mentally unstable. They could be fine for a while and then suddenly become extremely cruel. One of them asked me: You want to film a porn movie? He started touching me, kissing my back, my neck and my throat. He told me he loved me. It was extremely uncomfortable. At some point his hand stopped on my chest. My heart was pounding. He asked: 'Are you scared?'"
"He took me aside and threatened that if I ever told anyone he would kill me. In another incident he took me, pulled down his pants. I told him: 'This is forbidden in Islam.' He rubbed his genitals against my rectum for several minutes."
Gilboa Dalal returned from Hamas captivity after 738 days. He was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7 along with his childhood friend Evyatar David. Recalling the abduction during the massacre, he said: "Bullets were whistling past me, hitting the ground. I don't know how nothing struck me. I started running to the bushes with Evyatar. All I could think was: F***, I'm going to die now."
"Suddenly a terrorist pointed a rifle at my head. One of them dragged me to a vehicle and forced me onto my knees. I was sure they were going to execute me. I said to myself: At least the death will be quick. Then they threw Elkanah Buchbut and Bar Kuperstein inside, and then I saw Evyatar. They drove us around the city of Gaza, shouting: 'Jewish pigs.' We were forbidden to talk to each other or even look at one another. The beginning was horrific. I cried all day. I was sure there were at most 10 hostages."
Describing the day they filmed the brutal propaganda video in which he was forced to watch the release of other hostages, he said: "Alon Ahel and I know each other from the army. I didn't know he had been taken. I was in shock when they put him in the car. I wasn't happy he was a hostage, but I was relieved to see a familiar face."
President Isaac Herzog addressed Gilboa Dalal's testimony about the sexual assaults he endured in Hamas captivity, saying: "The very fact that he was willing to stand before the cameras, expose his wounds and give words to what is almost impossible to comprehend is an act of immeasurable courage."
The president added: "The world must hear this shocking testimony, must internalize that there was horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas, systematic and continued, on October 7 and afterward. Guy, you are teaching us yet another lesson. You are shedding light on the terrible darkness of the tunnels and what was inside them, so that our society and the entire world can understand what truly happened there. A young man carrying on his shoulders cruelty that no human being should ever bear."
