Vabastatud juudi pantvang kirjeldab, et Palestiina Islamidžihaadi liikmed piinasid teda teatud perioodil igapäevaselt. Peksti, kahjustati tervist (näiteks pandi kive kõrva), näljutati ja lõpuks toimusid ka seksuaalsed kallaletungid.
Released Israeli hostage says he was sexually assaulted in Gaza captivity
Mr Braslavski said his treatment by PIJ deteriorated rapidly after he had refused to convert from Judaism to Islam in March this year, which was also when the previous ceasefire collapsed.
He said he was kept blindfolded for three weeks, had stones pushed into his ears to limit his hearing, and had his rations of food and water reduced.
Then, he added, his captors received what they described as an order to torture him.
Mr Braslavski said they tied him up, punched him, and whipped him with a metal cable – and that this was repeated several times a day.
"I entered into a loop, which I doubted I would come out of alive," he recalled.
In August 2025, PIJ posted a video in which Mr Braslavski was seen crying and saying that he had run out of food and water, was unable to stand or walk, and was "at death's door".
Following the publication of the video, Mr Braslavski told Channel 13, his captors also began to sexually assault him.
"They stripped me of all my clothes, my underwear, everything. They tied me up from the... When I was completely naked I was wiped out, dying without food and I prayed to God: 'Save me, get me out of this already'," he said.
When asked whether his captors did "more things like that", Mr Braslavski replied: "Yes. It's hard for me to talk about this part specifically. I don't like to talk about it. And it's hard. It was a horrific thing."