‘They Are the Ones Who Can Get Pregnant’: Hostage Video Shocks Israel

Jerusalem, 22 May, 2024 (TPS) -- Israelis reacted with shock to a video released by The Hostages Families Forum showing Hamas terrorists threatening to sexually assault five women abducted on October 7.

The three-minute video was made up of footage taken from body cameras worn by Hamas terrorists that day inside the Nahal Oz army base. The five women in the video were identified as Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy, soldiers who worked as spotters at the base. All are still being held in Gaza.

The video starts off with the women facing a wall with their hands behind their as the terrorists check the handcuffs.

“You dogs, we will step on you,” one of the terrorists says.

The video also showed the terrorists praying. It then cut to one of the terrorists pointing to the women and saying, “Here are the girls who can get pregnant. These are the Zionists.”

The video also cut to another gunman telling one of the hostages, “You are so beautiful.” The woman cringed as the camera turned towards her.

The other two female spotters captured alive from Nahal Oz were Ori Megidish, who was rescued in October, and Noa Marciano, whose body was recovered in November.

The Forum said it released the footage to raise awareness for the 128 hostages still being held, and that it has a more graphic 13-minute version of the video.

“The disturbing video has been the reality of Agam, Daniella, Liri, Naama, Karina, and 123 other hostages for 229 days,” the forum said in a statement. “The video is a damning testament to the nation’s failure to bring home the hostages, who have been forsaken for 229 days.”

War Cabinet member Benny Gantz said his “stomach churned” after seeing the video and vowed to revive negotiations to bring home the hostages.

“But the responsibility of leaders is not just to look the reality in the eye, it is to create a different reality, even when it means making difficult decisions. And that is our responsibility,” Gantz wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Said President Isaac Herzog, “The world must look at this cruel atrocity. Those who care about women’s rights must speak out. All those who believe in freedom must speak out, and do everything possible to bring all of the hostages home now.”

At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 128 remaining hostages, some 40 are believed dead.