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My 55 Days as a Hamas Hostage
(The Sunday Times-UK) Amit Soussana and Rachel Shalev - Amit Soussana, 40, a lawyer, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7 and returned to Israel as part of November's hostage swap. She tells the story of her captivity. As four men grabbed me to bring me to Gaza, I fought them. One punched me in the eye, split my lip, severely beat me up, lifted my shirt, touched my breast, and choked me constantly. I kept on fighting them, the fight of my life. They got really mad, handcuffed me, tied my legs, and started dragging me on the ground, face down at first. In Gaza, one of the guards, Mohammad, came to me early in the morning and told me to shower. Then suddenly I saw him standing in the shower with the gun. He touched me; I didn't let him. I just closed my legs, tensed all my muscles, thinking, "This son of a bitch won't get what he wants." He touched my chest and kept hitting me because I wouldn't give in. Then he took me to the children's room. There I was, while he was doing what he was doing. I, who had never experienced anything like this in my life. One day, one of the terrorists put a shirt over my head, bound me with iron handcuffs behind my back and made me kneel on the floor. He began hitting me on the head with a gun. Then other terrorists moved two armchairs, brought two sticks, and simply hung me upside down between the armchairs. I had masking tape over my face. They hit me for about 45 minutes. One with a wooden stick and the others with their hands and guns.