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‘There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t abused.'
Former Hamas hostage Aviva Siegel (L) comforts her daughter Elan Tiv next to Former Hamas hostage Raz Ben Ami during a meeting with sympathizers during their visit to the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 29, 2024. Raz Ben Ami was released on November 29, 2023 as part of an extended temporary ceasefire deal. Aviva Siegel was released on November 26, 2023. (photo: Fabrice Coffrini / Getty )
She was twenty-seven years old, kidnapped from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. She didn’t survive. Her body was returned to Israel two years after she was taken. The last known female hostage held by Hamas.
“There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t abused,” said Aviva Siegel, one of the first women to be released. She was held for 51 days.
What happened to Israeli women in Hamas captivity was not the collateral damage of war. It was deliberate. Their treatment followed a logic of humiliation and subjugation. Women’s bodies were used as weapons of propaganda, objects of conquest, and instruments of psychological warfare. This is how Hamas fights. Their war strategy dehumanizes women in service of a larger mission: the destruction of the Jewish people.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border and carried out the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Along with murdering 1,200 people, they kidnapped more than 250, including women and children. Some were raped and filmed. Some were burned. Others were paraded through Gaza half-naked and bleeding. These acts were not spontaneous. They were recorded, distributed, and celebrated.
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She was twenty-seven years old, kidnapped from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. She didn’t survive. Her body was returned to Israel two years after she was taken. The last known female hostage held by Hamas.
“There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t abused,” said Aviva Siegel, one of the first women to be released. She was held for 51 days.
What happened to Israeli women in Hamas captivity was not the collateral damage of war. It was deliberate. Their treatment followed a logic of humiliation and subjugation. Women’s bodies were used as weapons of propaganda, objects of conquest, and instruments of psychological warfare. This is how Hamas fights. Their war strategy dehumanizes women in service of a larger mission: the destruction of the Jewish people.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border and carried out the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Along with murdering 1,200 people, they kidnapped more than 250, including women and children. Some were raped and filmed. Some were burned. Others were paraded through Gaza half-naked and bleeding. These acts were not spontaneous. They were recorded, distributed, and celebrated.
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Hamas’ War on Women: Survivors Detail Horrors of Captivity
‘There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t abused.'
