Some truly horrific details in this report, some regards the rapes and sexual abuse is known including the rape of dead bodies but other details are just as horrific
Since her release, Agam Goldstein-Almog, also
recounted that several female hostages confided in her
about being sexually assaulted by their captors, including
one woman who was raped at gunpoint by a Hamas
guard.216 A number of female residents were sexually
abused before being killed while others were sexually
mutilated afterwards. According to a report by the
Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC),
Pramila Patten, “The recurring pattern of female victims
found undressed, bound, and shot – indicates that
sexual violence, including potential sexualised torture,
or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, may have
occurred.”217
Ellay Golan, a doctor, Ariel Golan, a social
worker, and their 18-month-old daughter Yael were
hiding in their safe room, when attackers used a burning
tyre to smoke them out. When that failed, they ignited
a butane gas cylinder in order to set the house alight.221
Running barefoot, surrounded by thick smoke they
tried to escape their burning house. Ellay described
the heat as being “like a flamethrower all around us”.
Seeing the house collapsing the attackers left, and
the family was able to escape the flames through the
bathroom window and run into the agricultural fields of
the Kibbutz. They were able to get to the main gate of
Kfar Aza where the IDF picked them up. A soldier at the
scene said their clothes had been burned away or into
their skin.222 Second-and third-degree burns covered
60% of Ellay’s body, 45% % of her husband’s and 30%
of her baby’s. Yael was put into an induced coma for 8
days. Ellay, the most severely injured of the three, was
put into an induced coma for 58 days.223