A freed Israeli hostage has revealed the torture and abuse, some of it sexual, that he experienced after being kidnapped during the Oct. 7 terror attack.
“They stripped me of all my clothes — underwear, everything,” freed hostage Rom Braslavski, 21, told Israel’s Channel 13 in an interview that aired last Thursday. “They tied me up from my… while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying, with no food.”
“I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?’ It was sexual violence — and its main purpose was to humiliate me. The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what [they] did,” he added.
“It’s hard for me to talk about that part specifically. I don’t like to talk about it. It’s hard. It was the most horrific thing. It’s something even the Nazis didn’t do. During Hitler’s time, they wouldn’t have done things like this,” Braslavski continued.
Freed hostage Rom Braslavski describes the horrific and humiliating sexual assault and torture he suffered while held captive in Gaza for over 2 years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.
His full interview with Israel’s Channel 13 airs Thursday night. pic.twitter.com/Cc2Q5sLLJ4
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 6, 2025
Braslavski was kidnapped in 2023 and then finally released last month.
“You just pray for it to stop,” he said of his time in captivity. “And while I was there — every day, every beating — I’d say to myself, ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up to another hell. And another. And another. It doesn’t end.'”
“I came back from meeting the devil,” he added.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Braslavski also stressed that he wasn’t beaten because his captors were mad at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for not bowing to their demands — he was beaten for being a Jew.
“It’s wrong to say that they tortured me because Ben-Gvir is provoking them in prisons,” he said. “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.”
“The only thing that gave me strength was knowing that everything done to me was simply because I’m a Jew. It made me realize that we are truly different. We must return to being a united people, to keeping mitzvot, to understanding what it means to be Jewish.”
– Rom Braslavski pic.twitter.com/WzyzMBWWEj
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) October 24, 2025
He went on to describe what happened on Oct. 7, 2023.
“I had never seen a dead body before,” he said as he described trying to escape from the Nova music festival where the attack began. “I thought they were plastic dolls.”
When he was eventually captured, he tried to fight his way out like a superhero.
“I said to myself, ‘listen, you’re in a movie,'” he recalled. “If I’m in a movie, with cameras, what would the guy in the movies do? I started to attack him with my fists, with all my strength, and shoved him with all my strength. I caught him off guard.”
He then tried running away but was quickly caught and beaten to the point that they broke his nose.
Rom Braslavski who worked as security guard at Nova music festival, stayed behind to rescue people during genocidal massacre, was kidnapped by Hamas sadistic monsters, starved and tortured for 2 years, is finally free ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/IgLVHmTGlX
— lelemSLP (@lelemSLP) October 13, 2025
The terrorists, members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, proceeded to take him to an “improvised house, like a chicken coop” and tied him him inside a closet.
Stunningly, he managed to get loose while his captors were away so that he could cook something to eat in the kitchen.
“Every time I heard a sound of someone coming, I went back running to the closet,” he said. “I was living like that for a week.”
On one occasion, he chose to cook macaroni.
“Finally, I decided to cook the macaroni,” he said. “I opened the window, watched the sky for the first time since I got kidnapped, and breathed in the fresh air. Then put on a pot of water, and started warming it when the gas ran out.”
He was eventually caught and beaten again.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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