Several former Hamas hostages in Gaza share accounts of sexual assault

Guy Gilboa-Dalal is among several former hostages, mostly women, speaking publicly about alleged sexual assaults at the hands of the militants in the Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV — Guy Gilboa-Dalal said he had already been held captive in the Gaza Strip for nearly 18 months when one of his Hamas captors pulled him from his tiny, crowded cell. The militant made the blindfolded 24-year-old strip naked and sit on a chair.

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“You didn’t see girls for a long time, right? Do you watch porn?” he remembers his captor asking. “Do you want to make porn with me?”

“You’re kidding, right?” Gilboa-Dalal says he replied. “It’s not allowed in Islam.”