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RandySF

(80,869 posts)
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:03 PM 2 hrs ago

'If you tell anyone, I'll kill you': Gaza hostage Romi Gonen recounts sexual abuse during captivity

Former Gaza hostage Romi Gonen recounted her experiences in Hamas's terror captivity in the Gaza Strip, including terrorists sexually abusing her, during an interview with Channel 12's "Uvda" broadcast on Thursday evening.

Gonen told the interviewer that the question that comes to people's minds is if she was sexually assaulted, but acknowledges that people do not directly ask her. "I would not ask it if I were them. I also think no one asks it because no one wants to hear the answer," she said.

However, Gonen recounted several instances when she was assaulted.

Gonen said she felt it was important to speak about such events, although she only described them in part.


'https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-881435?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share





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'If you tell anyone, I'll kill you': Gaza hostage Romi Gonen recounts sexual abuse during captivity (Original Post) RandySF 2 hrs ago OP
Unsurprising, even by the standards of militaries Hamas is awful EdmondDantes_ 1 hr ago #1

EdmondDantes_

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1. Unsurprising, even by the standards of militaries Hamas is awful
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:27 PM
1 hr ago

War is ugly and too often warriors do ugly things. When you demonize the other side, it's easy. Hamas and their breatheren have demonized Israel and Jews in general. Hamas is despicable.

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