A former Israeli hostage in Gaza gave emotional testimony on Wednesday at the U.N. Security Council, recalling her captors beating her and pleading with them not to rape her.

At the council’s monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian file, Ilana Gritzewsky recounted being held with other hostages at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the site earlier this week of a controversial Israeli military operation.

“They took us through the back entrance and walked us past all the civilians. In the hospital, there was an area that was closed off and used only by Hamas, with an armed guard,” Gritzewsky told the U.N. body. “They locked us in a room, where we met a third hostage.”

Gritzewsky was held for 55 days without medical treatment after suffering injuries during the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7,

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