What They Did To Rom Braslavski

Unspeakable horrors. This is what the world cheers. We are in hell.

Former hostage Rom Braslavski says the rape he experienced in Gaza was so bad that even Nazis didn’t do the things during WWII that Palestinians did to him over the last 2 years.pic.twitter.com/hz16WctCQ1

— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) November 6, 2025

The Ordeal of Rom Braslavski

By: Hugh Fitzgerald, November 2025:

We have all read a lot about the atrocities that Hamas carried out on October 7, 2023. We know about the families tied together with wire and then burned alive, about the babies decapitated or strangled, about the girls raped and as they were being raped, were stabbed to death, about the women whose breasts were sliced off before they were killed, about the men whose genitalia were cut off, about both men and women who had their eyes gouged out, again while they were still alive, and much much more in that ghastly vein. We’ve heard less about how the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas were treated, except to be told, in laconic fashion, that they were starved, subject to sexual abuse, beaten, and held for months on end in dark tunnels. One of the twenty hostages released in the latest hostage-for-prisoner exchange is Rom Braslavski, who has provided a detailed description of his ordeal. You can find out more about it here:

“Starved, blindfolded, beaten: Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski recalls torture in captivity,” Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2025:

Content warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as torture and sexual assault.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) tortured and beat him not because of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, but because he was a Jew, former hostage Rom Braslavski said in an interview with Hazinor, published on Channel 13 Thursday night.

“It’s wrong to say that they tortured me because Ben-Gvir is provoking them in prisons,” Braslavski said, recalling the words of one of his captors. “They only tortured me for one reason, because I am a Jew. This is why I got everything I got. Not because of Ben-Gvir, not because of Netanyahu, nothing else.”

Braslavski’s captors significantly worsened his situation in March 2025, after the second ceasefire deal concluded. At that point, Braslavski said that more of the family members of the terrorists were being killed.

His captor told him at that point that if he converted to Islam, he would be given a lot of food, and nobody would touch him. Braslavski refused. “I knew in my head that it would never happen. I told [the terrorist], I was born a Jew, I will die a Jew.”

“I remember I had the courage to tell them, ‘I’m not crying from hunger, I’m crying from what you are doing to me here.’ I told him this sentence, then I was beaten again. But it was important for me to say it. I told him, ‘Maybe you think it’s just me and you here, and nobody sees us, but God sees me here, how I’m being tortured by you, and he sees you, how you torture me.’ I told him it will not pass quietly. ‘God will rip you apart. Wait for God’s response, and you will see what will happen to you.’”

After he said this, the terrorist became angry. He put the stones back in Braslavski’s ears and the blindfold back on. He called Muhammad, his brother, and “the amusement park began again,” Braslavski said sarcastically.

Then the torture became worse. Braslavski revealed that his captors stripped him naked, starved him, and tied him up while sexually assaulting him at this point, with tears in his eyes. “They stripped me of all my clothes, my underwear, everything. They tied me up while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying, with no food.”

“It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me,” he said. “The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what he did.” “I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?’”

Braslavski doesn’t describe the sexual violence meant to “crush his dignity.” I suspect it was anal rape with a stick.

The people who almost beat Rom Braslavski to death on this occasion were not members of Hamas but hundreds of ordinary Gazans, full of murderous bloodlust toward any Jew.

In his imprisonment, every kind of torture and humiliation was inflicted on him — starvation, physical torture (those rocks nailed into his ear canals), sexual assault, total sensory deprivation, and endless beatings of every kind, yet somehow he endured, and stayed sane after 737 days of diabolical mistreatment. Read Rom Braslavski’s recounting of his ordeal, and send it on, especially to those who persist in believing that Israel, not Hamas, is the malefactor in this war-in-Gaza morality tale.