Former Hamas hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal details sexual abuse in captivity

Former Hamas hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal has revealed new details regarding the abuse he endured during his two years of captivity in Gaza.

In an interview with Channel 12 News airing this weekend, a preview of which was published on Wednesday.

“He lets me shower, and when I finish the shower, he drags me out and does not let me put on my clothes,” Gilboa-Dalal recounted, referring to one of his captors. “He takes me back to their room and then throws me onto one of the armchairs. He started touching my whole body. I froze. I told him: ‘You’re joking, right? That’s forbidden in Islam.’ He put a gun to my head and a knife to my throat. He told me that if I tell anyone about it—he will kill me.”

Gilboa-Dalal, 24, from Kfar Saba, was released on Oct. 13 as part of Israel’s ceasefire deal with Hamas, having endured 738 days in captivity after being abducted from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

He is the latest former hostage to come forward with stories of sexual abuse in captivity.

Rom Braslavski revealed for the first time earlier this month that he was sexually abused and tortured by his captors in the Gaza Strip.

The 21-year-old was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival when was taken captive, and was held for over two years before gaining freedom in October along with the other 19 remaining living hostages as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Braslavski said in an interview with Channel 13 News that his Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors stripped him naked and tied him up.

“They stripped me of all my clothes—underwear, everything. They tied me up from my … while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying, with no food,” he said.

“I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?’”

He continued: “It was sexual violence — and its main purpose was to humiliate me. The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what he did.”

“Yes. It’s hard for me to talk about that part specifically. I don’t like to talk about it. It’s hard, It was the most horrific thing,” he continued.

“It’s something even the Nazis didn’t do. During Hitler’s time, they wouldn’t have done things like this. You just pray for it to stop. And while I was there—every day, every beating—I’d say to myself, ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up to another hell. And another. And another. It doesn’t end.’”

He added: “I came back from meeting the devil.”

On Nov. 12, captivity survivors Keith and Aviva Segal delivered harrowing testimonies before a United Nations committee in Geneva.

The Segal couple was still in their pajamas when terrorists stormed into their home Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023, Keith Segal related before the U.N. Committee against Torture (UNCAT). The Segals were part of an Israeli delegation to the United Nations led by Israeli Justice Ministry Director‑General Itamar Donenfeld.

About 15 armed terrorists “tore Aviva’s meniscus in her knee and broke my ribs. On the way to the car they shot at us and I was injured in my wrist. ... They pushed us into a car, a terrorist sitting in the back seat with a long knife in front of our faces. ... Within minutes we crossed the border [into Gaza],” he continued, according to Ynet.

“Our captives compared my genitals to those of another hostage, threatened us with knives, leaving us to beg to go to the bathroom—we would wait until we were absolutely about to explode so that we would not anger the terrorists. I was denied the most basic of human rights. I was starved. More than once young terrorists forced me to undress in front of them, and shaved my body,” he went on to say.

Aviva Segal, who was released after 50 days in captivity as part of a hostage-terrorist swap agreement, told the committee about a young boy from her community who was held captive with her in the Strip.

“I know [his] family, I love them. A Hamas terrorist zip tied his hands while we were sitting there. He was full of blood. We were full of blood. When [the terrorist] came to take [the zip ties] off him with a cutter, he cut his hand with the zip tie. I’ll never ever forget that moment. I wanted to scream, while I could see the Hamas terrorist smile,” she said.

In another incident, a young girl went to the bathroom and when she came back “she was shaking. I knew I wasn’t allowed to hug her... but I got up and gave her a hug. I felt I had to, she’s young. After a while she told us that a Hamas terrorist touched her whole body and did whatever he wanted,” afterwards threatening to kill her if she told anyone, Segal recounted.

Another young girl was forced to commit a sexual act on a Hamas terrorist in the shower.

“She’s 16 years old. She’s never ever shown anyone her body. The Hamas terrorist just stood there, stared at her and smiled. I remember looking at her while she came out of there; she was shocked, I was shocked,” Segal continued.

Her worst moments, she said, were seeing how the captors “tortured my husband Keith [and] what they did to the girls, and I wasn’t even allowed to hug, I wasn’t allowed to help, I wasn’t allowed to cry, I wasn’t allowed to move... I tried so badly [to remain] human and loving any way I could. I loved by the way I looked at them with my eyes,” she added.

“I come from a community that 64 people were murdered. Forty families lost at least one member of the family. People on Oct. 7, [2023,] died slowly, while talking to their families telling how much they loved them—and then disappeared out of life. When I came back I heard so many stories—and they’re true. They were videoed by Hamas because they were proud of themselves. They played soccer with heads of humans. They cut off breasts off girls and played. One boy in my community was buried without a head—they found the head in Gaza with ice creams.”

Keith Siegel, 62, was freed in a hostage deal on Feb. 1, 2025, along with Yarden Bibas and Ofer Kalderon, after 484 days in Hamas terrorist captivity.

His spouse, Aviva Siegel, 64, was released on Nov. 26, 2023.

The bodies of three slain hostages are still in Gaza: Israelis Master Sgt. Ran Gvili and Dror Or, and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.