נועה מגיד | Noa magid@NoaMagid · Oct 15, 2025

They chained him. Starved him. Beat him daily. For two years, Rom Breslavsky was completely alone in captivity. 🧵

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Rom Breslavsky was held captive for two years after staying to help others during the October 7 Nova festival attack. He endured chains, starvation, daily beatings, and psychological torture including religious coercion, but refused to break despite his captors' attempts to convince him he was forgotten.

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#1
They chained him. Starved him. Beat him daily. For two years, Rom Breslavsky was completely alone in captivity. 🧵
#2
On the morning of October 7, he was working at the Nova festival. He could have escaped - but he stayed to help others.
#3
For the first 4 weeks, he was chained hand and foot in "a bad place". Half a dry pita a day. A plastic bottle for a toilet, taken away once a night. He scratched the wall to count the days.
#4
Starving and desperate, he lit a fire in the bathroom to cook pasta. Smoke poured out. Gazans outside thought there was a fire - they smashed the windows. He hid under a bed, praying he wouldn’t be lynched. His captor returned at the last moment and moved him.
#5
Between April and July, they beat him several times a day - with whips and worse. Two years alone. Torture intensified over time.
#6
They tried to make him convert to Islam - offering food and "treats" if he’d read the Quran or fast during Ramadan. He refused. Every time. The moment he came home, he put on tefillin.
#7
His captors told him no one was waiting for him. That there were no photos of him, that he wasn’t important, and had nowhere to return to.
#8
Before his release, Rom saw the bodies of hostages. He told his mother: "They knows exactly where they are".
#9
Rom doesn’t want phones or gifts. He stands by the window and says: "This is what I want - the sky, the sun, the air of freedom".