New York Post

Sex vic’s gruesome tale

- Katherine Donlevy

An Israeli lawyer taken hostage by Hamas was routinely beaten and sexually assaulted by her captors during her 55 days in captivity, a bombshell report revealed.

Amit Soussana, 40, is the first Israeli hostage to publicly speak about the abuse she suffered, which started just days after she was taken prisoner in Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack and invasion of Israel.

Her captor had unchained her from the bed for what she thought was to allow her to take a bath when things took a violent turn, she recalled.

“He came towards me and shoved the gun at my forehead,” Soussana (above) told The New York Times in a report published Tuesday.

The captor — identified only as “Muhammad” — forced her to shower and then dragged her into a children’s bedroom adorned with SpongeBob Squarepant­s decoration­s where she said he sexually assaulted her.

“Then he, with the gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him,” she said.

Muhammad had been harassing Soussana since she was brought to her makeshift jail, her first detention stop since 10 men abducted her (below) from her home in the Kibbutz Kfar Azza, roughly 1½ miles from the Gaza border.

Soussana was moved to another hideout just days later and away from Muhammad, but the violence was far from over.

She claims she was beaten by a slew of other guards over the next few weeks during her detainment in roughly half a dozen sites — including the infamous Hamas tunnels.

Soussana was finally released on Nov. 30, along with 105 other hostages during a ceasefire. She reported the sexual assaults within days of her return.

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