Former (Israeli) hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel testify before UN Committee Against Torture (warning)

Former Hamas hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel, who were abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, testified before the United Nations about the horrors of captivity, saying that they are not looking for "mercy," rather, they want to make sure that the terrorists who kidnapped and tortured them will never be able to again. It was very difficult emotionally for them to read their testimony. The two spoke at a session of the U.N. Committee against Torture (UNCAT) in Geneva.

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“Our captives compared my genitals to those of another hostage, threatened us with knives, leaving us to beg to go to the bathroom - we would wait until until we were absolutely about to explode so that we would not anger the terrorists. I was denied he most basic of human rights. I was starved. More than once young terrorists forced me to undress in front of them, and shaved my body,” he described.

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Aviva Siegel, Keith’s wife, also testified before the committee. She described being in a tunnel under Gaza and witnessing a Hamas terrorist use a wire cutter to cut off the hand of a young boy from her community in order to remove his handcuffs. " I just wanted to scream, and I saw the terrorist smiling as he did it,” she said. According to Aviva: “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 ... but I got up and gave her a hug. I felt I had to, she's young. After a while she told us that a Hamas terrorist had touched her whole body and did whatever he wanted," and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. She recounted another case of a young girl forced to shower with a terrorist and then perform oral sex on him. Additionally, she described a 16‑year‑old girl who was forced to shower in front of a terrorist. “She’s 16 years old,” Aviva said with a broken voice, “she has never ever shown anyone her body. A Hamas terrorist just stood there, stared at her and smiled.”

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“I come from a community that 64 people were murdered. 40 families lost at least one member of the family. People on October 7th died slowly, while talking to their families telling how much they loved them—and then disappeared out of life. When I came back I heard so many stories—and they're true,” Aviva added. “They were videoed by Hamas because they were proud of themselves. They played soccer with heads of humans. They cut off breasts off girls and played. One boys in my community was buried without a head—they found the head in Gaza with ice creams.”

Aviva recalled returning with an 84-year-old female hostage named Alma, who she massaged for four hours to keep her alive after she had lost half her body weight due to subsisting on two dates a day. Alma's body temperature was 82.4 F upon her return. The doctor said if Aviva had not massaged her she would not have survived.

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