Woman released from Gaza: The hostages are being raped there, we must pray they aren’t pregnant

A hostage freed from Gaza tells lawmakers that the women still being held by terrorists in the enclave are being raped and have been abandoned.

“There are girls there who have not had their period for a long time and maybe that’s what we should be praying for, that it’s the body protecting itself so that, God forbid, they will not be able to get pregnant,” Chen Goldstein Almog says.

“When we said goodbye to the women who were in captivity with us, they were on edge, with great despair that they were still staying there,” Goldstein Almog tells the Knesset caucus on victims of sexual and gender violence in the war against Hamas.

“Some of the girls from the Gaza border towns do not know if their spouses or their parents are alive, if their community has been evacuated, what happened there,” she says, according to the Ynet news site.

“They feel that they have been forgotten, that they were abandoned on October 7 and they are still abandoned. It has been eight and a half weeks that there has been no sign of life from them,” she says.

Goldstein Almog, 48, her 17-year-old daughter Agam and sons Gal, 11, and Tal, 9, were taken hostage on October 7 during Hamas’s shock onslaught. Father Nadav and daughter Yam were murdered by the terrorists at the family’s home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The four — mother, daughter and two boys — were released from Gaza in late November under a temporary truce deal.