482 days of rape and sexual assault

The Daily Mail reports:

Over a year has passed since the world saw the terrified face of Arbel Yehoud forced to walk through a baying mob of Hamas terrorists to freedom.

Only now does the 30-year-old feel strong enough to reveal that this sickening spectacle was just the last act in a monstrous campaign of abuse unleashed throughout her 482 days held in Gaza.

Motivated to talk after seeing fellow captive Romi Gonen, 25, bravely reveal how she was sexually assaulted by her captors, Arbel tells me this is what she endured ‘almost every single day in captivity’.

Held alone, it was so bad she tried to commit suicide on multiple occasions.

‘I tried to end it three times,’ Arbel says. ‘I felt like I couldn’t go on. There were moments when I thought it was the only way out.’

Thankfully she did survive.

Arbel and Ariel hid under their bed with Murph.

‘I put my hand over her mouth to stop her barking… but it didn’t help,’ Arbel said. She said it reminded her of Holocaust testimonies, when mothers accidentally suffocated their children while trying to stop them crying as Nazis searched for them.

‘They found us, dragged us out, and shot Murph in front of us. We heard Murph’s crying until she died.’

Such lovely guys those Hamas freedom fighters.

I was held with a baby who was four months old. By the time I was released, he was 15 months old. They carry knives from the age of seven or eight.

‘Three days before I left, the baby aimed a gun at me. He was playing with it. He pointed it at me while I begged his mother to take it down.’

Never too soon to train future killers.

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