Shocking Details Emerge: Male Israeli Hostage’s Harrowing Ordeal in Sex Attack

An Israeli hostage who was recently released has bravely shared the harrowing details of the sexual assault he endured while being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Guy Dalal-Gilboa, freed as part of a ceasefire agreement last month, recounted how his captor cruelly proposed that they “make a porn film” together before subjecting him to sexual abuse.

The 24-year-old, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, during the Supernova music festival, revealed that he was later threatened with a gun and knife by his captor, who warned him against speaking about the assault.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Mr. Dalal-Gilboa became the second freed male hostage to publicly speak about experiencing sexual abuse during captivity, following Rom Braslavski’s shocking account earlier this month.

Mr. Dalal-Gilboa recounted one of the most traumatic moments of his 738-day captivity in Gaza, describing how his guard led him, blindfolded, into a room and began questioning him about pornography. The guard taunted, “You haven’t seen girls in a long time, right? Want to watch porn? Want me and you to make a porn film?”

The captor then proceeded to sexually abuse Mr Dalal-Gilboa by touching him from behind, while taunting him by saying ‘he loves me’. 

‘He started touching my whole body and I froze at that moment. He started touching and kissing my neck, kissing my back. It was very, very scary,’ he said.

He described how his heart began ‘beating really, really, really fast,’ prompting the guard to ask if he was scared.

‘I told him yes,’ Mr Dalal-Gilboa said. ‘He took me, pressed a gun to my head and a knife to my throat and told me that if I told any one of the guys inside – [fellow hostages or one of the other guards] – then he would kill me.’

Mr Gilboa-Dalal recounted the pain of not being able to confide in any one about the trauma of the assault.

‘Not only did I go through that terrible experience, I also couldn’t tell anyone. I had to keep it to myself, inside me,’ he said.

In another incident, the former hostage described how his captor turned a moment of basic hygiene into a violent and degrading attack.

‘I showered and he took me by force and pulled me into their room, and wouldn’t let me get dressed. He also takes off his own trousers,’ Mr Gilboa-Dalal said.

‘I told him: “You’re joking, right? That’s forbidden in Islam. You’re Muslim, things like this are forbidden.”‘

Despite Mr Gilboa-Dalal’s attempts to prevent the attack, the captor proceeded on with the sexual assault.

‘I didn’t see him, my face was turned [one] way and he was behind me, and he rubbed his genitals against my anus for a few minutes, and I really froze,’ the former hostage said.

‘I didn’t know what to do with myself at that moment,’ Mr Gilboa-Dalal said, describing the fear he felt that the assault might become a ‘regular thing,’ or that it could ‘slowly get worse – that it’ll be with even more beatings, and it’ll be even more violent, and even more invasive’. 

Luckily, the shower incident was the last time he was sexually abused, but the fear never left Mr Gilboa-Dalal, who was tormented by the idea that he was always only seconds away from the next assault.

Throughout his captivity, Mr Gilboa-Dalal also wrestled with the idea of converting to Islam.

‘I tried to get information from them about Islam and about the Quran, even to the point where I thought about converting to Islam, just to try to keep a good relationship with them,’ he said.

His family revealed that while in Gaza, he suffered from several infections, lost his hearing in one ear, and developed skin problems. 

After he was freed as part of the US-brokered ceasefire, his father disclosed that he was undergoing psychological care to help him process what happened to him. 

He was filmed joyfully tasting his mother’s homemade sweets for the first time since he was released in the car journey home, after over two years of starvation.

Mr Gilboa-Dalal’s brutal account comes after Mr Braslavski, 21, became the first male hostage to share his shocking story of sexual abuse and reveal the dreadful nature of the horrors inflicted by Palestinian terrorists. 

He was kidnapped and imprisoned by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on October 7 – where, he says, he was repeatedly sexually violated and brutally beaten with a donkey whip. 

Speaking to Channel 13, he said he was made to dance, tortured for 20 minutes seven times a day, and blindfolded while stones were inserted into his ears with nails – leaving him unable to see or hear for weeks. 

‘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.

‘It was sexual violence – and its main purpose was to humiliate me,’ he said. ‘The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what he did.’

When asked by reporter Roni Aviram if more assaults took place, Mr Braslavski confirmed they had.

‘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 said.

‘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.”‘

Describing the daily abuse he experienced, Mr Braslavski said: ‘They beat me with everything they had. They smashed a radio over my head. They broke a big stick on me. The whip itself bent completely – it was metal. They bent metal from how hard they were hitting.’ 

While female hostages such as Amit Soussana and Ilana Gritzewsky have bravely spoken of sexual assault in captivity, Mr Dalal-Gilboa and Mr Braslavski are the first male survivors to publicly describe such abuse.

Ms Gritzewsky, who testified before the UN Security Council, described being held at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

She said: ‘On the way to Gaza, when they started to touch me and sexually abuse me, I passed out physically and mentally. I couldn’t handle it anymore.’

In May, 15-year-old Dafna Elyakim spoke publicly about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of one of her Hamas captors during her time in Gaza.

She had been abducted from her father’s home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz along with her younger sister, Ela, then aged eight.

‘We had one guard, one of the terrorists, who would touch me all the time, or tell me that I was going to stay there – that they would return Ela and everyone else – and only I would stay behind with him. He said we were going to have children together and a house and all that,’ she said. 

‘He would always tell me that he was coming with me to shower.’

Earlier this month, Aviva Siegal, 62, who was taken by Hamas, told the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) in Geneva about how she witnessed a teenage girl being sexually assaulted. 

She said: ‘I am witness to one of the girls who was with us, that the Hamas terrorist came to the bathroom, told her to get undressed, came into the shower with her, and forced her to do oral sex. And she had to smile after she did that too.

‘I am a witness of one of the girls who was forced to take a shower. She is 16 years old, she’s never ever shown anybody her body, the Hamas terrorist just stood there and stared and smiled.’

Last week, Dr Itai Pessach – who treated one quarter of all returning hostages at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv – told the Daily Mail: ‘Almost fifty percent of them had endured significant sexual assaults.’

‘And how do you define it? Being watched naked while bathing and forced to dress in front of a few men? To me, that also counts as assault. Therefore, the figure could be far higher,’ he added.

Mr Gilboa-Dalal was kidnapped alongside his childhood friend Evyatar David – whom he had known since the age of three – at the Nova music festival, his first festival, which he attended with his brother Gal.

Back in August, Hamas released a propaganda video showing Mr David emaciated and digging his own grave. 

During captivity, Mr Gilboa-Dalal also became so weak with muscle wasting that Mr David had to help him dress, and they forfeited rare showers because it made them sick. 

In the Channel 12 interview aired on Saturday night he recounted further beatings, being used as a human shield, and ongoing humiliation.

‘He puts a mask on me, like a Covid mask, he tells me: “Sit on all fours and bark like a dog.”‘ Afterwards, he was beaten and punched.

Mr Gilboa-Dalal said that while it is taking time to adjust to freedom from the indescribable horrors he endured, he found an inner strength he never knew he had.

‘It’s okay to break, and I also broke there a lot, and I cried a lot, and I went through terrible times,’ he said.

‘I want to say thank you to all this amazing nation, to the IDF soldiers, thanks to whom I’m here, and my amazing family. I still have a long way to go, but I will eventually succeed in this rehabilitation.’

The bodies of three hostages are still being held in Gaza.

The war began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, when militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 captives.

Israel’s retaliatory military campaign killed more than 69,000 people, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.