An Israeli lawyer taken hostage by Hamas was routinely beaten and sexually assaulted by her captors during her 55 days in captivity, a bombshell report revealed.
Amit Soussana, 40, is the first Israeli hostage to publicly speak about the abuse she suffered, which started just days after she was taken prisoner in Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack and invasion of Israel.
Her captor had unchained her from the bed for what she thought was to allow her to take a bath when things took a violent turn, she recalled.
“He came towards me and shoved the gun at my forehead,” Soussana told the New York Times in a report published Tuesday.
The captor — identified only as “Muhammad” — forced her to shower and then dragged her into a children’s bedroom adorned with SpongeBob SquarePants decorations, where she said he sexually assaulted her.
“Then he, with the gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him,” she said.
Muhammad had been harassing Soussana since she was brought to her makeshift jail, her first detention stop since 10 men abducted her from her home in the Kibbutz Kfar Azza, located roughly 1.5 miles from the Gaza border.
The abduction was violent — with the kidnappers relentlessly beating Soussana in an attempt to stop her attempts to escape.
They brought her into a home in Gaza and chained her to a child’s bed where Muhammad would sit beside her, lift her shirt and grope her, she told the Times.
Muhammad — described as a chubby, balding man of average height with a wide nose — exclusively watched over Soussana in the early days of her captivity.
He slept in another room, but frequently walked into hers in his underwear, asking about her sex life and offering to massage her body, she said.
When he took her to use the bathroom, he refused to let her shut the door.
The lawyer tried to fend off the abuse by lying about when her period would end, which seemingly fascinated him, she told the Times.
