A Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist described exactly how he raped a “terrified” Israeli woman on October 7, claiming that “the devil got hold of me.”
The detained terrorist, who identifies himself as Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Qasem, 28, said he broke into a house on an unnamed kibbutz in Israel and found a lonely and terrified woman, according to a video shared with MailOnline.
“At first when I entered there was no one, then I entered a room and there was someone there and they were afraid of me,” he said in an interrogation room while sitting in front of an Israeli flag.
“She told me to help her, so I grabbed her and threw her on the couch.”
He then described in sickening detail how he sexually assaulted the woman.
“The devil got a hold of me, I put her to bed, started undressing her and did what I did.”
But the interrogator, from Unit 504 of the IDF’s intelligence arm, pressed him and the terrorist says he “slept with her.”
The detained terrorist, who identifies himself as Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Qasem (pictured), 28, said he broke into a house in an unnamed kibbutz in Israel on October 7.
The interrogator says angrily: ‘You didn’t sleep with her, sleeping is sleeping.’ What did you do then?’
The dead-eyed terrorist then admits: “I raped her.”
He tried to back away, claiming it “didn’t last long” when he heard shouting outside. He said the rape lasted “two minutes, maybe a minute and a half.”
‘Two men came through the door forcefully and we heard screams. I don’t know if it was his mother or who he was.
“After hearing the screams, she and I started to get dressed, then these two men came in.”
Qasem said the two men were wearing uniforms from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, and that they dragged the Israeli woman’s mother into the same room and the two frightened women “began to comfort each other.” , before both were dragged away by two Hamas fighters.
He then admitted to killing several civilians at the kibbutz with a gun and a grenade, before fleeing.
Qasem said a fellow terrorist called him to join the Oct. 7 attack, despite having trained in the Hamas navy.
He told interrogators that his friend was injured in the head when they crossed into Israel.
The chilling testimony comes days after an Israeli hostage revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive by Hamas.
Amit Soussana has claimed that a guard, who she said identified herself only as Muhammad, with his “gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act with him” in a child’s room.
Soussana, 40, told the New York Times that she was sexually assaulted, beaten and tortured while detained in Gaza for 55 days.
The Israeli lawyer was released during a ceasefire in November along with 21-year-old Mia Schem.
The terrorist group has denied for months that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the October 7 attack.
Amit Soussana, 40, has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive in Gaza by Hamas. She was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, Israel, during the October 7 raid. Ms Soussana is pictured outside her home in January this year.
However, a United Nations (UN) report released this month said there is “clear and convincing information” that some hostages had suffered sexual violence.
There are also “reasonable grounds” that some people were assaulted during the raid, the report added.
Ms Soussana was kidnapped from her home during the October 7 raid, beaten and dragged to Gaza by a group of at least seven armed men.
While in captivity, she said she was kept alone in a child’s bedroom and chained by her left ankle.
She said that just a few days after she was kidnapped, Muhammad began interrogating her about her sex life and menstrual cycle.
Muhammad attacked her around Oct. 24, Soussana told the Times. He claimed he untied her, took her to the bathroom and ordered her to take a bath.
While washing, the lawyer recalled hearing his voice by the door, telling him “quickly, Amit, quickly.”
Then she turned around and found him standing there with his gun, looking at her.
Soussana said she tried to cover herself with a hand towel, but Muhammad advanced on her and hit her.
‘He sat me on the edge of the bathtub. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept hitting me and pointing his gun at my face,” he told the newspaper. “Then he dragged me into the bedroom.”
She alleged that while in the bedroom, which was allegedly decorated with images of children’s cartoon characters, Muhammad forced her to commit a sexual act on him, before leaving her naked, sitting in the dark and sobbing on the bed.
Mrs Soussana noted that Muhammad had left her alone to wash and claimed that her attacker showed remorse after the attack, allegedly telling her: “I’m bad, I’m bad, please don’t tell Israel.”
She reported the alleged assault and other acts of violence to two doctors and a social worker less than 24 hours after being released from captivity, The Times reported.
It is understood he also spoke to the UN team that published the report into sexual violence against hostages in Gaza and during the October 7 attack.
Ms. Soussana also revealed that approximately three weeks after her abduction she was moved to another location, which she described as an apartment, and met with other hostages.
She recalled being summoned to the living room a few days after her arrival to receive a brutal beating by a group of guards who apparently believed she was withholding information from them.
Mrs. Soussana, photographed during her kidnapping, refused to leave quietly. She was kicking and screaming until her captors shoved her into a car to return to Gaza.
The lawyer said the guards wrapped her head in a shirt, forced her to sit on the ground and hit her with the butt of a gun. They put duct tape over her mouth and nose, tied her up and handcuffed her, Soussana recalled.
The guards reportedly hung her “like a chicken” between two sofas and continued to beat and kick her, while demanding that she reveal information they believed she was hiding.
“It was like that for about 45 minutes,” he said. “They hit me, laughed and kicked me, and called the other hostages to see me.”
After she was untied, Soussana said guards took her back to a bedroom and threatened to kill her if she did not present the requested information within 40 minutes. She said she still doesn’t know exactly what information they sought.
Mrs. Soussana lived alone in Kfar Aza and was an easy target for Hamas attackers, who discovered her hiding in a safe room on her property on October 7.
Stunning footage, captured by a security camera, showed how she fought to free herself from Hamas as they dragged her back to Gaza during their ruthless raid.
Holding her down, the attackers can be seen slapping Soussana while trying to wrap her in a shawl or blanket, but she still fought back, squirming and kicking. In the end, her captors were forced to put her in a car to take her back to Gaza, since they could not drag her on foot.
More than 1,200 Israelis were massacred on October 7, regardless of whether they tried to flee or resist their attackers.
Ms. Soussana was one of several hostages who were taken and spent almost eight weeks living in captivity.
She was released by Hamas just one day before the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas expired and hostilities resumed.
Ms. Schem, who was kidnapped at the Nova music festival on November 30, was released along with her.
During the truce, Hamas released 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Twenty-five other captives, mostly Thai, were released outside the scope of the agreement.
Israel withdrew its negotiators from Doha on Tuesday after deeming mediated talks on a Gaza truce “at a dead end” due to Hamas demands, a senior Israeli official said.
The official, close to the Mossad spy chief leading the talks, accused Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, of sabotaging diplomacy “as part of a broader effort to inflame this war over Ramadan.”
The warring parties had intensified negotiations, brokered by Qatar and Egypt, over a six-week suspension of Israel’s offensive in exchange for the proposed release of 40 of the 130 hostages still held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza.
Hamas has tried to take advantage of any agreement to end the fighting and withdraw Israeli forces. Israel has ruled it out, saying it would eventually resume efforts to dismantle Hamas’ governance and military capabilities.
Hamas also wants hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled Gaza City and its surroundings to the south during the first stage of the nearly six-month war to be allowed to return to the north.
The Israeli official said Israel had agreed to double the number of Palestinians it would release for hostages, between 700 and 800 prisoners, and to allow some displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Tuesday that Hamas had made “delusional” demands, which it said showed the Palestinians were not interested in a deal.
Hamas has accused Israel of stalling talks while it carries out its military offensive.
The discussions, brokered by Egypt and Qatar, continue as a humanitarian crisis devastates Palestinians in Gaza with severe shortages of food, medicine and hospital care. Concern is growing that famine will take hold.