Twisted hostage ‘dress-up’
An Israeli former hostage suggested Tuesday that Hamas terrorists are dressing up female captives as “dolls,’’ turning them into “puppets with whom they could do what they wanted.’’
Ex-captive Aviva Siegel, who attended a meeting of Israel’s parliament, said she saw members of the terror group bringing female captives “inappropriate clothing, dolls’ clothes.”
The female hostages have been turned into “puppets with whom they could do what they wanted, when they wanted, and it’s beyond belief that they’re still there,’’ Siegel said.
“We’ll soon reach four months,” she said of the Oct. 7 kidnappings. “We were there for 51 days, and there wasn’t a minute that we didn’t experience abuse — and they are still there.”
The father of an 18-yearold Israeli hostage — one of the youngest captives still in the clutches of Hamas — said he is afraid his daughter is being raped after former kidnap victims refused to answer difficult questions about her condition.
Eli Albag, the father of Liri Albag, who was kidnapped from her bed by the terror group during its deadly Oct. 7 attack, said Monday he learned from freed hostages that his daughter is alive but being kept in deplorable conditions and potentially sexually assaulted.
“They say that they don’t have food, they don’t have water, they don’t take a shower, they’re sleeping on the floor, very cold humidity, 40 meters under the ground,” said the dad of four, referring to survivors’ accounts of current hostages’ conditions, the Express & Star reported.
Survivors’ trauma
The Israeli father spoke to the media after meeting Monday with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary David Cameron during a lunch organized by Conservative Friends of Israel in London.
He told the BBC that when he asked a released female hostage if terrorists had sexually abused Israeli women, he could not get an answer.
“She was silent but she moved her face so I understood that something happened there,” he said. “I worry that they’ve done something wrong to these girls. I cannot understand them, I cannot understand these animals.”