'They beat me, humiliated me': Ex-hostage describes traumatic captivity in Gaza. In Spanish, she said, “I am also here today as a Mexican woman, because that is where I was born, where the cartels kill and torture people."
Former Gaza hostage Ilana Gritzewsky recalled in a Wednesday UN Security Council meeting that during her captivity, when she was moved locations, she was forced to walk hand in hand with a terrorist as if she were his wife, so nobody would notice she was a hostage.
“They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, causing me to lose my breath. They dragged me across the floor, lifted me, and threw me against the wall. They pointed guns at me, hit me, and tried to film me with my phone.
"I raised my hands, told them I was Mexican, begged them not to hurt me, not to rape me, not to shoot me, just to let me go. The only thing I could think of was having my family see me end my life like this. The terrorists beat me, humiliated me, touched me all over, threw me on a motorcycle, and took me into Gaza.”
While she was on the way to Gaza, she lost consciousness when the captors began to touch her and sexually abuse her. She woke up lying naked on rocks surrounded by the Hamas terrorists. To prevent them from assaulting her, she told them she was on her period. They then threw a hijab at her.
While in captivity, she lost 12 kg (24 lbs) in 55 days. While the hostages were fed 10 chickpeas or a piece of dry flat bread a day, the terrorists had meat, rice, and vegetables, which they ate in front of the captives.
She recalled that the captors would wake up the hostages in the middle of the night for cruel interrogations.
The terrorists who held her did not wear Hamas uniforms. One of them said he was a math teacher, and the other was a lawyer.
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Former Gaza hostage at UN: Captor forced me to hold hands | The Jerusalem Post
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