Aviva Siegel tells UN young female hostages in Gaza were repeatedly sexually assaulted

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel appear before the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva and recount their harrowing experiences in captivity — Aviva for 51 days, Keith for 484.

Aviva highlights the multiple instances of sexual assault suffered by young female hostages held with her.

“One of the days, one of the girls went to the bathroom and when she came back she was shaking. I knew I wasn’t allowed to hug her, because we weren’t allowed to, but I got up and I gave her a hug. I felt I have to, she’s young,” Siegel says.

“And then after a while she told us that the Hamas terrorist touched her whole body and did whatever he wanted… She was so scared because he said to her if she ever says anything about that he will kill her, but she told us.”

Siegel adds: “I’m a witness of one of the girls that was with us, that the Hamas terrorist took her into the bathroom, told her to get undressed, came into the shower with her and forced her to do oral sex on him. And she had to smile after that happened too.”

This is a clip from the chilling testimony of captivity survivor Aviva Siegel, who spoke today in front of the UN Committee Against Torture along with her husband and fellow captivity survivor Keith.
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“I’m a witness of one of the girls that was forced to take a shower — she’s 16 years old, she’s never ever showed anybody her body. The Hamas terrorist just stood there and stared at her and smiled. I remember looking at her while she came out of there. She was shocked, I was shocked.”

Siegel says that “the worst time for me as a human being was seeing how they tortured my husband Keith, what they did to the girls, and I wasn’t even allowed to hug, I wasn’t allowed to help, I wasn’t allowed to cry, I wasn’t allowed to move.”