“Where I was born (Mexico), when cartels kill and torture, the world calls them what they are: terrorists. Why is Hamas not condemned in the same way?”
Ilana Gritzewsky, a former hostage and the partner of Matan Zangauker—who has been held in Gaza for 691 days—delivered an emotional address to the United Nations Security Council in New York on Wednesday, urging world powers to secure the release of those still held captive.
Gritzewsky described in painful detail how she was dragged from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Oct. 7 attack, beaten, sexually assaulted, and forced into Gaza.
“They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, dragged me across the floor and pointed guns at me,” she told ambassadors, holding up a photo of her partner. “I begged them not to hurt me, not to rape me, not to shoot me—just to let me go.”