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Former Israeli hostage recounts sexual abuse in Hamas captivity and fear of becoming a ‘sex slave’
CNN ^ | Jan 4, 2026 | Tal Shalev, Dana Karni

Posted on 01/04/2026 8:38:35 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie

Former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen said she endured repeated sexual assault, harassment and intimidation during her 471 days of Hamas captivity, speaking publicly for the first time about her experience and her fear of becoming a “sex slave” in Gaza.

Gonen, now 25, was kidnapped at age 23 from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, and released as part of the January 2025 hostage deal. In a two-part interview broadcast this week on Israel’s Channel 12 program Uvda, she recounted several incidents of sexual harassment and assault by three different men.

“Only when you’re in this situation can you grasp what happens to the body. And fear – it sometimes paralyzes,” Gonen said, describing what she called the “worst” assault. According to her account, one captor ordered her into a bathroom, followed her inside and assaulted her. “There was this one moment in the bathroom, I was crying like crazy,” she said, “and he was having the time of his life, ecstatic, as if he had received the gift of a lifetime.”

Looking through a small window, she said, she was struck by “The dissonance between the beautiful, ordinary clean life outside – and the filth, beastliness, and disgust happening inside the bathroom.” In the aftermath of the assault, she recalled thinking: “Romi, everyone in Israel thinks you’re dead, and you’re going to be his sex slave for life… Then he comes up to me, puts a gun to my head, and tells me, ‘If you tell anyone, I am going to kill you.’”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Yemen
KEYWORDS: filth; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; muslim; subhuman; yemen
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We know what needs to be done. Where is the will to do it?

1 posted on 01/04/2026 8:38:35 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

This is from CNN? I’m surprised.


2 posted on 01/04/2026 8:48:39 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Sounds like the Hammie Boys ran out of goats...


3 posted on 01/04/2026 8:52:07 PM PST by kiryandil (Resistance to The Odor is defiance to grainpidity)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Then he comes up to me, puts a gun to my head, and tells me, ‘If you tell anyone, I am going to kill you

Open him up, remove his intestines, then sew pig guts into while he's alive.

4 posted on 01/04/2026 8:54:08 PM PST by kiryandil (Resistance to The Odor is defiance to grainpidity)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Anyone who supports Hamas supports rape.


5 posted on 01/04/2026 8:56:20 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And people wonder why we support Israel. I saw this first hand in Kuwait. We should make any area that allows this to happen to be a free fire zone using armored. Give them 72 hours to vacate, then open fire at anything that moves and level anything that doesn’t and is considered a fortification or bunker. Muslims are animal and need to be cull cows from the human race. And if you kill enough of them, they will out number the virgins.

wy69


6 posted on 01/04/2026 9:02:00 PM PST by whitney69 (b)
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To: Sicon

I guess even CNN cannot defend the Islamocommie Party anymore.
They are so far out in left field that people without TDS are in shock over what used to be the democrat party.
This won’t end well for NYC.


7 posted on 01/04/2026 9:16:40 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Sad fact is a Muslim will tell you this wasn't rape.

Romi was a non-Muslim prisoner of war. Property of her captors. A slave.

They could do whatever they liked with her, the Koran says.

8 posted on 01/04/2026 9:28:34 PM PST by ZOOKER
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To: webheart

“Anyone who supports Hamas supports rape”
Yes, and they support raping and gutting babies too.
Demonic activity.
So is aborting live babies and selling their organs.


9 posted on 01/04/2026 9:31:24 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Sicon

God bless this woman for speaking about this.

I have to respect the rights of the tormented but I strongly and firmly resent it that nearly all of the Israeli victims and their families refuse to publicize and release the videos of the October, 2023 massacres and kidnappings and rapes. Some captured from hostage holders, others from cell phones of Israeli people near the victims.

This has allowed 1) leftist and anti-semitic media to claim nothing really happened (”there were no babies put into ovens and burned”) and 2) to ignore the atrocities.

When Gen. Patton made troops visit Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 and he explained about a cement slab where victims were tied and whipped to the bone and places where bodies of people were piled up, he said: “I know someday there will be those who deny all of this happened but I want as many of you as possible to see the results so you can be witnesses when they deny it.” Patton, Eisenhower and Bradley also did this, ordering Germans to bury the dead and the US Signal Corps to make extensive photographs and films, some of which were used at the later Nuremburg Trials.

Eisenhower insisted that American soldiers, journalists, and eventually German civilians be brought to other camps to witness the evidence of atrocities firsthand.


10 posted on 01/04/2026 9:43:32 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Just kill the offenders coldly and efficiently and move on to the next. War is soul destroying and sometimes necessary. The rightfully killed need killing, end of story.

PS
One of my patients in the our VA coumadin clinic was a nephew of Colonel Tibbits who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I asked him with his permission about it. He said his uncle “never missed a minute of sleep over his mission.”


11 posted on 01/04/2026 10:04:55 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Harvard and Yale support Hamas.


12 posted on 01/04/2026 10:30:07 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

[[I kept telling myself, ‘You’re strong.’ But no, I’m not strong, and no, you can’t heal from such a thing, you can’t,” she said, in tears. ]]

No miss, you are much much stronger than you allow yourself to beleive. The animals that did that are the weak minded ones. God has seen what hzppened, znd they will not get away with it.


13 posted on 01/04/2026 11:11:50 PM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

In America we have Trump Derangement Syndrome. These Islamic camel riders have, what I call, Islamo Leftist Delusion. They’re so affected, like Marshall Applewhite’s followers, would, with a shot of vodka, eat applesauce or pudding laced with barbiturates and submit to suffocation from plastic bags placed over their heads.


14 posted on 01/05/2026 12:41:35 AM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Sicon; Governor Dinwiddie

“she recounted several incidents of sexual harassment and assault by three different men. “

According to the article in the Times of Israel it was four. CNN is already working to reduce the problem. From the Times of Israel article

https://www.timesofisrael.com/if-you-tell-anyone-ill-kill-you-ex-hostage-romi-gonen-recounts-captors-repeated-sexual-assaults/

“Former hostage Romi Gonen shared that she was sexually assaulted by four different men on separate occasions during her 471 days as a hostage in Gaza, speaking in an interview that aired on Thursday.”


15 posted on 01/05/2026 1:35:28 AM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: ZOOKER
Romi was a non-Muslim prisoner of war. Property of her captors. A slave.

They could do whatever they liked with her, the Koran says.

Islamic Law is a Law of Rape. We have seen that work out in the UK with the Muslim Grooming Gangs raping tens if not hundreds of thousand of white girls.

Further on Islamic Law being a law of rape.

https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/6/rape-is-resistance

16 posted on 01/05/2026 1:47:13 AM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: frank ballenger

“I have to respect the rights of the tormented but I strongly and firmly resent it that nearly all of the Israeli victims and their families refuse to publicize and release the videos of the October, 2023 massacres and kidnappings and rapes. Some captured from hostage holders, others from cell phones of Israeli people near the victims.”

Hamas was proud of the rapes committed against the hostages and some videos showed up on the public internet.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4341838/posts#21

Also see post 22 for links to the videos, if you have the stomach for that level of rot. Some of the videos show rapes of mature women, not just teens.


17 posted on 01/05/2026 1:53:15 AM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Kill every last one of them and their families.

End their lines forever.

L


18 posted on 01/05/2026 1:58:16 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: webheart

“ nyone who supports Hamas supports rape.”

Going by how the Hollywood types act when cameras aren’t watching, I’d posit they do support rape.


19 posted on 01/05/2026 4:02:29 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: frank ballenger

If they haven’t been released, how do you know they exist?


20 posted on 01/05/2026 6:03:34 AM PST by TexasGator
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