# Hamas Captivity Survivor Challenges Rapporteur on Sexual Violence

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069722534921044221
- Source account: [@desireerugani](https://x.com/desireerugani)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:50
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence) Special Rapporteur, your report speaks of a violence against women.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=4) Why is there no mention of Hamas? On October 7, terrorists stormed our kibbutz, murdering, kidnapping, and burning.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=13) They torched me and sensual abused me. I was beaten and mutilated before blacking out.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=19) I wake up half naked with seven terrorists standing over me, not knowing what happened to me in those lost moments.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=26) I went through days of pain and horror in captivity.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=30) And even now, the feeling of being powerless and violated still lingers.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=35) I came back with a broken hip, a broken jaw, and a scarred soul.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=40) People see my face and think that I'm unfree.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=44) But freedom is not a switch. Trauma doesn't vanish once you are released.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=49) Now, every air raid siren and every rocket from Iran throws me back into that hell.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=55) On October 7, and in captivity, Jewish women were raped, abused, and humiliated.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=63) And you, Special Rapporteur, you choose silence and denial.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=67) Ms. Al-Salem, you say there was no evidence of sexual violence on October 7.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=72) I'm standing here today not as a report, not as a statistic.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=77) I am a woman who survived. I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=83) When I, another Israel woman, begged not to be raped, why were you silent?

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=90) Please look at me. Do you believe us now?

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wNpfNJJUfA5P/en/hamas-captivity-survivor-challenges-rapporteur-on-sexual-violence?t=92) Will you apologize?