Ilana Gritzewsky told the paper that she passed out after her abduction on Oct. 7 and woke up in the Strip "surrounded by gunmen, half-naked, terrified and vulnerable."
(March 25, 2025 / JNS) Ilana Gritzewsky, who was freed on Nov. 30, 2023 after 55 days of Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, spoke with the New York Times about being sexually assaulted as a hostage.
Gritzewsky, 31, was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas-led terrorists during the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack. Her partner Matan Zangauker, 25, remains in Gaza captivity.
Gritzewsky told the Times that the terrorists who invaded Nir Oz beat and molested her as they drove her to the coastal enclave. A gunman burned her leg by pressing it against an exhaust pipe, and another kidnapper groped her repeatedly, she said.