Former Hamas hostage Amit Soussana shares more details about her time in captivity, and she says there was still a hostage who played an important role in her survival. Liri Albag, one of the IDF soldiers who was abducted on October 7, “Saved” Soussana.
Speaking on Israeli TV, Soussana remembered that her kidnappers tied her up and struck her and demanded that she admitted that she was in the Israel defense forces (IDF). Soussana says that her hands and feet were tied, and she was beaten with a stick before one of the abductors pointed a gun on her and said, “You have 40 minutes to tell us the truth, or else I kill you.”
Amit Soussana was released after 55 days of hell in a hostage. (Getty Images)
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Colleague hostage albag was apparently able to convince their abductors that Soussana was in fact not in the army. Soussana who calls albag ‘something special, a power’ believes that this action has saved her life.
“I told her when she came back:” I don’t know if they would have killed me or not; As far as I’m concerned, you saved my life, “Soussana said in the interview.
Brought Israeli hostage released Liri Albag, a soldier who was abducted from her army base during Hamas’ attacking October 2023 attacks, embraces loved ones after he was released at an unknown location in a hand -out photo obtained by Reuters on January 25, on January 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Reuters)
Hamas terrorists have kidnapped Soussana from her house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the Brutal 7 October attacks. She was forced to walk barefoot in pajamas from her burning house to the Gaza limit, which was beaten along the way. Soussana fought her abductors in what was called ‘the Battle of My Life’, in an attempt to block them in the hope that the IDF would save her before she was dragged to Gaza.
Soussana was released from Gaza in November 2023 after 55 days in captivity as part of the first hostage of Israel with Hamas.
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In March 2024, Soussana became the first Israeli woman to publicly spoke about sexually abused in Hamas Captivity. She remembered the horrific incident in an interview with the New York Times. Soussana witnessed later For the UN Security Council in October 2024 about its experience.
Amit Soussana spoke for the UN on Wednesday and shared her moving experience as a hostage. Hamas terrorists kidnapped her on October 7, 2023. (UNTV)
During her imprisonment, Soussana was chained by her ankle, unable to move. “I had to ask permission to use the bathroom,” she explained, with details about her experience. “In that house I was sexually abused by the Hamas terrorist who had guarded me.”
She described the attack and said, “He forced me to go to the shower and entered the room, pointed his gun to me. He breathed heavily and had a monstrous beastly face.” She remembered his intrusive interrogation while he was sitting next to her in his underwear, lifted her shirt and touched her. “I knew exactly what he was planning to do, and yet I couldn’t do anything to prevent it. I was completely helpless.”
Soussana said that after the attack she was not allowed to “cry or be sad.” She remembered that she felt isolated and “forced to act nicely for the person who just had sexually abused me.”
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Israel and Hamas Have been working on a deadly war for more than 15 months after the devastating surprise attacks of the terror group on October 7, 2023. Hamas is expected to release Agam Berger, Arbel Yehout and the 80-year-old Gadi Moses on January 30 as part of the current Stakten -furen dealing with Israel.
