From the New York Post: A traumatized Israeli hostage held captive for more than two years in Gaza revealed that he was sexually assaulted and tortured so sadistically by Jew-hating terrorists that he begged them to let him starve to death.
Rom Braslavski was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, and subsequently stripped naked, starved and sexually abused until he was finally released earlier this year, he revealed in a chilling interview with Israeli media.
“I came back from a meeting with the devil,” Braslavski told Israel’s Channel 13.
“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.”
He said the abuse was frequent — and worse than Nazi torture.
Braslavski, 21, was working as a security guard at the Nova Festival on October 7th when he was taken captive by Hamas terrorists. He was ultimately held as a hostage for 738 days, and endured 20-minute-long torture sessions seven times a day.
Braslavski described how he was beaten with a donkey whip, forced him to dance and blindfolded with stones in his ears for weeks at a time. His captors told him his father was dead, ate in front of him while he started, and told him if he converted to Islam they would feed him.
When he refused to convert to Islam, the torture increased, to the point where he begged that they would just let him starve to death.
“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 said.
“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,” Braslavski said, referring to the sexual torture he endured. “It’s something even the Nazis didn’t do. During Hitler’s time, they wouldn’t have done things like this.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog posted a short clip from the interview and wrote:
Former hostage Rom Braslavski showed extraordinary courage in sharing the horrors of his captivity, including a horrific sexual assault he endured while held by Islamic Jihad terrorists. His trembling voice, heard tonight in Israel and around the world, breaks through the walls of silence and denial, reminding the world that it must not turn away from the truth.
The world must understand the scale of the crimes committed by the terrorists in Gaza, heinous cruelty, sexual violence, and abuse. We saw this methodical, deliberate evil in the massacre of October 7, and we have heard more and more harrowing testimonies from those who returned from captivity. These were not isolated acts of terror, but planned, systematic crimes committed by monsters against the innocent.
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Former hostage Rom Braslavski showed extraordinary courage in sharing the horrors of his captivity, including a horrific sexual assault he endured while held by Islamic Jihad terrorists. His trembling voice, heard tonight in Israel and around the world, breaks through the walls… pic.twitter.com/MvGpNdRK7h
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) November 5, 2025
International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky shared another clip from the interview:
He was tortured, starved, sexually abused and humiliated.
Watch, listen, cry and scream, as hostage survivor Rom Braslavski recounts his harrowing experience being held captive in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/PKtPDQsxUr
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) November 7, 2025
Braslavski was finally freed on October 13, one of the 20 last remaining living hostages to be released in a peace agreement deal.
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