Gay man who fled Gaza speaks about Hamas repression
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sy11owegr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-RctabKMk

When Abdul was 17, Hamas caught him having sex with his boyfriend, imprisoning him for three days.

“They put me in a tiny room that was two-by-two meters. They wouldn’t let me sleep or go to the bathroom inside. There was no food. They would torture me so badly,” he said.

“Sometimes, they would tie my feet up and beat them with a stick. After that, every few years, they would arrest me and torture me in the same way.”

Over the course of five years, Abdul says Hamas would kidnap him off of the streets, torture him, and then rerelease him. Finally, at 22, they let him go for the last time.

He was forced to take an oath on the Quran that he wouldn’t “be gay again.”

For two years, Abdul lived on the streets until he managed to scrape together enough money to escape into Egypt and then make his way to Turkey.