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Alon Ohel à son retour chez lui

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

‘They took everything but my will to live’: Alon Ohel details torture in Gaza

Former Israeli hostage Alon Ohel has shared a harrowing account of his two years in Hamas captivity, detailing torture, sexual harassment, starvation, and psychological abuse

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Alon Ohel à son retour chez lui

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

‘They took everything but my will to live’: Alon Ohel details torture in Gaza

Former Israeli hostage Alon Ohel has shared a harrowing account of his two years in Hamas captivity, detailing torture, sexual harassment, starvation, and psychological abuse

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Released hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal waves the Israeli flag as he arrives to Beilinson hospital, October 13, 2025.

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Gaza captivity survivor Guy Gilboa-Dalal details sexual abuse by his captor

Describing his guards as abusive and erratic, the 23-year-old detailed two incidents where one of them subjected him to sexual abuse in an interview with Channel 12 News Israel

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


L’otage libéré Avinatan Or et sa compagne, l’ex-otage Noa Argamani, sont transportés par hélicoptère de l’armée de l’air israélienne vers un hôpital du centre d’Israël, après sa libération de captivité par le Hamas, le 13 octobre 2025.

4 min

Survivor Testimonies

Released hostage speaks of attempted escape from Hamas tunnels

Avinatan Or describes his captivity and how he had at one point attempted to escape, digging himself out of the tunnel and marking a sandbag with the word 'hostage,' until his captors found out

i24NEWS

Read time: 4 min.


3 min

Survivor Testimonies

'I only believed I was going home when I saw the Red Cross': released hostage in first interview to i24NEWS

After his moving speech at the Hostages Square on Saturday, 23-year-old Guy Gilboa Dalal speaks out for the first time on his 738 days in captivity

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski addressing the Tel Aviv rally

4 min

Survivor Testimonies

Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski at Hostages Square: 'It was my dream to be here with you'

Speaking for the 1st time since his release, he said 'My heart is racing. I can't believe I'm in a place I once saw on TV from inside Gaza, and said that it's my dream to get there — and now I’m here'

i24NEWS

Read time: 4 min.


Le président Isaac Herzog brandit une photo de l'otage Rom Braslavski lors d'une conférence de presse conjointe avec le président letton Edgars Rinkevics, à Riga, en Lettonie, le 5 août 2025.

4 min

Survivor Testimonies

Former hostage Rom Braslavski speaks out about his sexual abuse in Hamas captivity

"It's something even the Nazis didn't do. During Hitler's time, they wouldn't have done things like this." President Herzog reacted to the testimony: 'The world must not turn away from the truth'

i24NEWS

Read time: 4 min.


Edan Alexander, a U.S.-Israeli IDF soldier freed from Hamas captivity

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

In 1st public address since release from captivity, U.S.-Israeli Edan Alexander announces return to IDF service

"While I am free, many others are still captive. Their nightmare continues. Their families are still waiting. We cannot forget them. We cannot stop until they are all home."

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


L'ancien otage, Keith Siegel

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

'Every minute is critical': Ex-hostage Keith Siegel testifies in Knesset

'They threatened to kill me several times, pressed a gun against my head,' Siegel recalled, urging a ceasefire and hostage release be secured as soon as possible

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


Palestinian terrorists kidnapping an Israeli woman from her kibbutz on October 7, 2023

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

Dinah Project publishes 'most comprehensive' Oct 7 sexual violence report

Report seeks to be used as 'central tool for prosecutorial authorities in Israel in evaluating the case files,' as well as pushing the UN to list Hamas as perpetrator of sexual violence

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


The site of the Nova music festival where revelers were killed and kidnapped on October 7 during the cross-border attack by Hamas militants is seen near Kibbitz Reim, southern Israel, October 12, 2023

4 min

Survivor Testimonies

Witnesses detail 'widespread and systematic' sexual assault on October 7

'Sexual violence continued in captivity, with many returnees reporting forced nudity, physical and verbal sexual harassment, sexual assaults and threats of forced marriage'

i24NEWS

Read time: 4 min.


Caitlyn Jenner visite le complexe de Nuba, le kibboutz Be'eri et le mémorial des véhicules calcinés à Tkuma, jeudi 12 juin 2025

3 min

Culture

Caitlyn Jenner visits October 7 massacre sites ahead of TLV Pride Parade

The celebrity visited the Nova compound, the Be'eri kibbutz and the memorial of burnt vehicles in Tkuma, accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel.

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


L'ex-otage Emily Damari

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

Emily Damari says she hid her homosexuality from Hamas captors

The former hostage recounted having asked one of his jailers what he would do if he discovered his brother was homosexual – His response: 'I would kill him'

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


Former Hamas hostage and IDF soldier Ori Megidish

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

Former hostage Ori Megidish reveals sexual assault suffered during captivity

The first hostage freed revealed she had been harassed by one of her guards in Gaza after she was abducted on October 7

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


L'ancien otage, Yarden Bibas, place des otages à Tel Aviv

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Yarden Bibas details encounter with Yahya Sinwar during captivity

'Sinwar asked me what he could do for me,' Bibas recollected, 'I told him I wanted to stay with David, my best friend. He promised it would be done'

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Freed hostage Tal Shoham salutes jubilant crowds welcoming him as he arrived in Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikva's Rabin Medical Center

5 min

Survivor Testimonies

Tal Shoham shares story of Gazan captivity, torment by terrorists

Shoham spoke about the urgency to release the hostages, specifically cellmates Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal – 'I really fear that if they won’t be released soon, they probably will die there'

i24NEWS

Read time: 5 min.


Billy, la chienne de Rachel Danzig, disparue de Nir Oz le 7 octobre 2023, a été ramenée de Gaza par des soldats de Tsahal, le 15.04.25

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Dog returns to Nir Oz family after being found by soldier in Gaza

Thanks to the internet and the soldier’s initiative, the Danzig family was able to welcome Billy home the same day she was found

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


L'ancien otage, Yarden Bibas, place des otages à Tel Aviv

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Yarden Bibas asks Trump to 'help bring all the hostages back'

Survivors of captivity spoke to the "60 Minutes" TV program, with Yarden Bibas saying the terrorists told him he would get a new and better wife and kids after they were murdered

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Ofer Calderon

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

Ofer Kalderon: Hostages starve, go months without shower in Gaza tunnels

Kalderon, released last week after 484 days as a hostage, revealed new and particularly difficult details from his time in Gaza • 'Hamas is a brutal enemy who will not hesitate to harm the abductees'

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


L'ex-otage du Hamas, Amit Soussana

2 min

Survivor Testimonies

'Liri Albag saved my life in Gaza': ex-hostage Amit Soussana

Wrongly suspected of being a senior officer in the IDF, the Israeli woman reveals she underwent brutal interrogations before Albag's intervention

i24NEWS

Read time: 2 min.


Ada Sagi, one of the hostages released on November 28.

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Former hostage and peace activist Ada Sagi: I don't believe in peace anymore

Her ordeal has led her to a bleak conclusion about global attitudes towards Israel and the Jewish people, saying she believes the majority of the world hates Jews

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Les photos des participants au festival Nova qui ont été assassinés et enlevés par l'organisation terroriste Hamas le 7 octobre 2023 sont exposées sur le site du massacre du festival de musique Nova, à Re'im

7 min

Israel-Hamas war

Music mogul Scooter Braun brings Nova Festival Exhibit to NYC

In an exclusive interview, the media mogul talks about his efforts to break the industry's silence in the aftermath of the biggest attack on a live music event in history

i24NEWS

Read time: 7 min.


Des personnes visitent le site du massacre du festival de musique Nova, à Re'im, près de la frontière entre Israël et la bande de Gaza

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Did 50 Nova festival survivors commit suicide? The shocking testimonial heard at the Knesset

'This number, which was true two months ago, may have increased since' says Guy Ben Shimon, a survivor from the Nova Music Festival, during a parliamentary hearing in Israel

i24NEWS

Read time: 3 min.


Kibbutz Be'eri, southern Israel

3 min

Survivor Testimonies

Be'eri survivor recounts harrowing details of October 7 massacre

"When the rockets started flying, my daughter texted me 'go to the safe room.' We were too used to rockets to run for cover," she recalled

Calev Ben-David

Read time: 3 min.


Released hostage Mia Regev Cunio speaks during a status of Women and Gender Equality committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.

4 min

Survivor Testimonies

Former hostage Mia Regev says 'every woman' sexually harassed in Hamas captivity

'To be a woman in captivity is to be in constant fear, but the men there also undergo abuse' says Sharon Aloni-Cunio, a mother who was abducted along with her family during the Hamas October 7 attack

i24NEWS

Read time: 4 min.


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