“The devil got a hold of me and I did what I did: rape her.”
Israel has released shocking video evidence from a terrorist involved in the October 7 attack, in which the gunman describes sexually assaulting “terrified” woman: “I tore off her clothes. The devil took control of me, and I did what I did… I raped her.”
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Fighter from the Palestinian «Islamic Jihad» (in Russia the group “Egyptian Islamic Jihad” is included in the list of terrorist organizations banned) described in detail how he raped the “terrified” woman. Israeli woman on October 7, declaring that “the devil has taken possession” named
According to the Daily Mail, the detained terrorist, who identifies himself as 28-year-old Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Qassem, said he broke into a house on an unnamed kibbutz in Israel and found a lonely, terrified woman.
"First, when “I walked in, there was no one there, then I walked into the room and someone was there and they were scared of me,” he said in the interrogation room. – She told me to help her, I grabbed her and threw her on the sofa.»
He then described in gruesome detail how he sexually assaulted the woman: “The devil took control of me, I laid her down, began to undress her and did what I did.”
But the investigator from Unit 504 of the IDF Intelligence Unit pressed him, and the terrorist says that he “slept with her.”
The investigator angrily says: “You didn’t sleep with her, a dream is a dream.” So what did you do?”
Then the terrorist admits: “I raped her.”
He tried to retreat, claiming that it «didn't last long» because he heard screams from outside. He said the rape lasted “two minutes, maybe a minute and a half.”
“Two men broke into the door with force and we heard screams. I don't know if it was her mother or who it was. After we heard the screams, she and I both started getting dressed, then these two men came in.»
Qassem said the two men were dressed in the uniform of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, and that they dragged the Israeli mother into the same room and the two terrified women «began to console each other» before they both pulled out by two Hamas fighters.
He then admitted to killing several civilians in the kibbutz using a pistol and a grenade before leaving the area.
Qassem claims he was encouraged to join the Oct. 7 attack by another terrorist, despite being trained in the Hamas navy. He told investigators that his friend had been shot in the head as they crossed into Israel.
The chilling testimony came days after an Israeli hostage said she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was in custody. captured by Hamas, recalls the Daily Mail.
Amit Sussana said the security guard, who she said identified himself as Mohammed, «pointed a gun at me and forced me to perform a sexual act on him.» in her child's bedroom.
Forty-year-old Sussana told the New York Times that she was sexually assaulted, beaten and tortured while she was held in Gaza for 55 days.
The Israeli lawyer was released during ceasefire in November with 21-year-old Mia Shem.
Hamas has denied for months that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the October 7 attack.
However, a United Nations (UN) report released this month said there was "clear and convincing information" that some hostages were sexually assaulted. There are also "reasonable grounds" for the fact that some people were attacked during the raid, the report adds.
According to the Daily Mail, Amit Susana was kidnapped from her home during a raid on October 7, beaten and dragged into Gaza by a group of at least seven militants. During her time in captivity, she said she was kept alone in her children's bedroom and chained by her left ankle.
She said that just a few days after she was kidnapped, Muhammad began asking her about her sex life and menstrual cycle.
Muhammad attacked her on or around October 24, Amit Soussana told the Times. She claimed that he unchained her, took her to the bathroom and ordered her to take a bath. When she was washing, the woman heard his voice at the door, telling her: “Quickly, Amit, quickly.”
She then turned around and saw him standing there with a gun, watching her. Susana said she tried to cover herself with a hand towel, but Muhammad walked up to her and hit her.
"He sat me down on the edge of the bathtub. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he continued to punch me and put a gun to my face,” she told the newspaper. "Then he dragged me into the bedroom."
She alleged that while in a bedroom that was reportedly decorated with images of children's cartoon characters, Muhammad forced her to perform a sex act on him before leaving her naked, sitting in the dark and sobbing on the bed.
Amit Sussana noted that Muhammad left her alone to wash up and said the attacker showed remorse after the attack, allegedly telling her: “I'm bad, I'm bad, please don't tell Israel.”
She reported the alleged assault and other forms of violence to two doctors and a social worker less than 24 hours after she was released from captivity, the Times reported.
The woman also spoke with the UN team that released the report on sexual violence against hostages in Gaza and during the attack on October 7.
Soussana also described how, about three weeks after her abduction, she was moved to another location, which she described as an apartment, and reunited with other hostages.
She recalled how, a few days after her arrival, she was called into the living room to be severely beaten by a group of guards who apparently believed she was hiding information from them.
The lawyer said the guards had wrapped a shirt around her head, forced to sit on the floor and beaten with the butt of a pistol. They covered her mouth and nose with duct tape, tied her hands and handcuffed her, recalls Amit Sussana.
Guards reportedly hung her «like a chicken» between two couches and continued beating and kicking her, demanding that she reveal information they believed she was hiding.
"This went on for about 45 minutes,' she said. – They beat me, laughed and kicked me, and called the other hostages to look at me.»
After they untied her, Sussana says the guards took her back to the bedroom and threatened to kill her if she didn't will provide the requested information within 40 minutes. She said she still doesn't know exactly what information they were looking for.
Amit Soussana lived alone in Kfar Aza and was an easy target for Hamas attackers who discovered her hiding in a safe room in her home on October 7. Astonishing CCTV footage showed her fighting to free herself from Hamas as they dragged her back to Gaza during their ruthless raid.
While holding her down, her attackers were seen beating Amit Soussana in an attempt to wrap her in a shawl or blanket, but she still resisted, squirming and kicking. Her captors were eventually forced to bundle her into a car to take her back to Gaza because they could not carry her on foot.
Susana was one of several hostages taken and was held captive for nearly eight weeks. She was released by Hamas just a day before a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas expired and hostilities resumed.
During the truce, Hamas released 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Twenty-five other prisoners, mostly Thai, were released outside the deal.