{"id":2232872,"date":"2024-04-29T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-sexual-assault-victims-detail-abuse-at-hands-of-hamas-in-harrowing-documentary\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:33:30","slug":"israeli-sexual-assault-victims-detail-abuse-at-hands-of-hamas-in-harrowing-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-sexual-assault-victims-detail-abuse-at-hands-of-hamas-in-harrowing-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli sexual assault survivors share their traumatic experiences in a powerful documentary exposing abuse by Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-sexual-assault-victims-detail-abuse-at-hands-of-hamas-in-harrowing-documentary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2232872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Several Israeli \u200bsurvivors,\u2063 including former hostages, recounting\u200d their traumatic \u200cordeals at the hands of \u200bHamas \u200bin \u2064the documentary &#8220;Screams \u200dBefore\u200b Silence,&#8221; shedding\u200c light\u2063 on\u2064 sexual and physical\u200d abuse. Despite doubts, \u2062the film\u2064 highlights the \u2062atrocities faced by hostages, triggering discussions on the \u2064need for action\u2062 against such violence. \u200cThe struggle for their release continues amid \u200binternational efforts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israeli\">Israeli<\/a> survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hostages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israeli\">former hostages,<\/a> first responders, and witnesses, are detailing their horrifying experiences at the hands of Hamas in a new documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour body is simply open to everyone,\u201d\u00a0Agam Goldstein-Almog, one of the Israeli hostages who was released in November after being held captive by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hamas<\/a> for about seven weeks, said in a new documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Goldstein-Almog, who was 17 years old on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas militants stormed into Israel and carried out a massacre leaving roughly 1,200 people dead, estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-found-economy-is-recovering-much-faster-than-officials-expected\/\" title=\"Fed Found Economy Is Recovering Much Faster Than Officials Expected\">roughly half<\/a> of the approximately 250 people taken hostage have been sexually and physically abused.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, released a couple of days ago, is titled <em>Screams Before Silence<\/em> and is available on YouTube. The hourlong film, a project from former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, includes testimonials from former hostages who were released during the weeklong ceasefire in November, first responders, and witnesses who survived the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Goldstein-Almog was kidnapped from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, along with her mother Chen and two of her sisters, Tal, 11, and Gal, who was 9 years old at the time. Chen\u2019s husband and the children\u2019s father, Nadav Goldstein-Almog, was killed on Oct. 7 in the safe room of their home. Hamas also fatally shot their eldest child, Yam.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, Agam and her mother Chen return to their home with Sandberg, who asks them to walk her through what happened on that day. As they stood in their safe room, which now includes several bullet holes, they described the murder of Nadav in front of them.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Giroa Almog (right), Varda and David Goldstein, and Omri Almog hold up portraits of Omri\u2019s sister, 49-year-old Chen Goldstein and her three children, 9-year-old Tal, 11-year-old Gal, and 17-year-old Agam Almog-Golstein in a hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, for evacuated Israelis on Oct. 30, 2023. The Israeli mother and her three children were abducted by Hamas militants from their home in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-hes-seen-confirmed-pictures-of-hamas-beheading-children\/\" title=\"Biden claims he's viewed 'verified images' of Hamas beheading kids.\">southern kibbutz<\/a> of Kfar Aza during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-israel-pounds-underground-palestinian-terror-networks-assets-with-110-precision-bombs\/\" title=\"WATCH: Israel Pounds Underground Palestinian Terror Networks, Assets With 110 Precision Bombs\">militant group\u2019<\/a>s unprecedented attack on Oct. 7 that resulted in the killing of over 1,400 people and the abduction of over 220. The assault also killed two other members of the Almog-Goldstein family, Nadav and Yam. (AP Photo\/Ohad Zwigenberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey came in and shot Dad right away,\u201d Agam said. \u201cI saw him taking his last breaths, his arms were up, and, like, just a second before that, he\u2019d been sitting here, and I didn\u2019t say goodbye to him or hug him or kiss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been some doubters about the claims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-department-to-curtail-trump-era-effort-to-track-teacher-sex-crimes-teacher-unions-to-continue-passing-the-trash\/\" title=\"Biden Education Department to Curtail Trump-Era Effort to Track Teacher Sex Crimes; Teacher Unions to Continue \u2018Passing the Trash\u2019\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-seeks-to-change-age-of-consent-to-15\/\" title=\"France Seeks To Change Age Of Consent To 15\">sexual violence<\/a> perpetrated<\/a> by Hamas and other militants who carried out the massacre, which in part prompted the documentary itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Oct. 7, the reports were coming out about not just mass murder, but mass sexual violence. And the usual people who should be speaking out were either ignoring it or denying it. And that\u2019s not OK,\u201d Sandberg said in a recent Fox News interview about the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Amit\u00a0Soussana was the first released hostage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2940915\/fetterman-hamas-rapists-cowards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>to reveal<\/a> she was sexually assaulted while being held captive. She said one of the men involved in guarding her forced her to commit a sexual act on him at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started touching me, and I resisted, and then he dragged me to the bedroom, and then he forced me to commit a sexual act on him,\u201d Soussana said. \u201cAnd I remember, the entire time, I was thinking: \u2018Amit, OK, you knew it\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s really happening.\u2019 I said to myself: \u2018OK, you can handle this. You just want to survive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agam, describing the terror of being held by Hamas, added, \u201cThey can wake you up in the middle of the night and rape you, and the whole time, a gun is pointed at your head. \u2026 And they\u2019re still there, still living with their rapists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are believed to be roughly 130 people who continue to be held by Hamas or other terrorist groups in Gaza. While several outside countries continue to pursue another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2982710\/blinken-urges-hamas-accept-extraordinarily-generous-ceasefire-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ceasefire deal<\/a> that would secure the hostages\u2019 release, an agreement has eluded all sides since the conclusion of the one back in late November.<\/p>\n<p>A United Nations report from the U.N. envoy for sexual violence said investigators had \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2902048\/un-convincing-evidence-hamas-committed-sexual-violence-hostages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>clear and convincing information<\/a>\u201d that the hostages had been the victims of rape, sexualized torture, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and the investigators have \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe this could be continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that victims, mainly women, were found \u201cfully or partially naked, bound, and shot,\u201d and they discovered \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe some victims were raped or gang-raped during the attack. Sexual violence was discovered in multiple locations, demonstrating the possibility that it was a part of their plan and not a one-off incident.<\/p>\n<p>Several people interviewed in the film were at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7. Hamas militants stormed the concert, opened fire, chased down Israelis running for safety, and committed sexual violence, according to those witnesses. Hundreds of the victims were killed at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard someone scream and then silence, I knew that it\u2019s probably someone gets shot,\u201d Tali Binner, who hid in a trailer at the festival for about seven hours, said. \u201cBut when you hear this chaos for 20 minutes \u2026 you understand something else much worse is happening right over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Binner went back to the trailer she hid in for hours during the film and shared what she was feeling as she feared for her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were so many noises of women. A girl started to yell for a long time, \u2018Please stop, stop, stop.\u2019 And it doesn\u2019t stop,\u201d Binner said to Sandberg. \u201cI\u2019m starting to calculate, what\u2019s worse: to get kidnapped, to be raped, to get shot? What\u2019s worse? What\u2019s better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michal Ohana attended the festival and was shot in the leg as she ran for her life. As she and Sandberg revisited the site of the festival, an apparent militant rocket attack occurred, and the loud noise from it sent her into a panic.<\/p>\n<p>Rami Davidian, a first responder at the concert, said he found \u201cgirls tied up with their hands behind them to every tree,\u201d adding, \u201ctheir legs were spread. \u2026 Someone stripped them. Someone raped them. They inserted all kinds of things into their intimate organs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks, including hostages, responders, and witnesses, reveal their harrowing ordeals with Hamas in a recent documentary. &#8220;Your body is simply open to everyone,&#8221; describes Agam Goldstein-Almog, a former hostage freed in November after captivity by Hamas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2232873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24065510162040-2-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24065510162040-2-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}