Freed hostage Rom Braslavsky, speaking at a rally marking 1,000 days since the October 7 attack, described his ongoing struggle with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, saying every treatment session brings tears and near-fainting. He stated that his personal war—the war of recovery and against the 'accursed disease of PTSD'—continues daily.
Freed hostage Rom Braslavsky addressed a rally marking 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023 attack, delivering a searing personal account of his ongoing struggle with severe PTSD. According to a report from Channel 12 published Thursday evening, Braslavsky said: 'My personal war, the war of recovery and the war against the accursed disease of PTSD, continues every single day, every treatment session in which I cry tears and almost faint.'
Braslavsky was held captive by Hamas in Gaza and freed during a November 2023 hostage-release deal. In recent months, he has spoken publicly about his captivity and his mental health battles. In a prior statement attributed to him, Braslavsky said in July that 'only now I can say 100 percent that I won,' after learning his captor had been killed by the IDF — though Thursday's remarks struck a far more somber tone.
The rally takes place as the war reaches its 1,000-day mark, a milestone that has prompted nationwide protests, media campaigns, and fresh data releases. The Defense Ministry has warned that its rehabilitation system is near collapse, treating some 26,200 wounded security personnel, 65% of whom report mental distress. National Insurance data shows a sevenfold increase in recognized mental-disability cases among civilian terror victims. Braslavsky's testimony is one of the most direct first-person accounts of the psychological toll on released hostages.
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