Justifying the rape of women

Hamas isn't all Palestinians

Rape as a tool of war or terrorism is wrong

That doesn't make other actions such as killing thousands of children right or automatically justified

I don't see this as hard to understand ?

I'm getting a little tired of posters minimising the 7 October atrocities. Israel has actually now held screenings for foreign journalists showing a combination of footage filmed by the terrorists and Israeli responders, exactly because there are these constant attempts to minimise.

The same people seem to believe every claim and figure that Hamas care to produce.

People seem not to have read the OP.

women are normally horrified by rape, including rape as a war crime. Hamas raped women and children so violently they broke their pelvises. Nothing Israel has done or could ever do could possibly justify this, but this thread shows posters dismissing, minimising and saying they don’t believe the Israeli reports, despite Hamas’s own footage showing horrendous atrocities (but we all know Jews are sneaky and devious, don’t we?).

The rape rates in war do seem to be somewhat culturally dependent. I don't think what happened in Berlin would have happened to anywhere near the same extent had the Allies forces got there before the Russians, although I doubt whether the rate would have been zero either.

Rape is a tool of war and a daily fact of life for many. It happens in every war and everywhere. You think IDF don't/haven't raped Palestinian women? You think Palestinian men don't rape Palestinian women or that Israeli men don't rape Israeli women?
Even Oxfam people delivering aid in disaster zones use it as a fucking opportunity to rape the local women and kids.

Please don't try and frame any of this shit as if that it means justifying rape

My point was that in those conflicts where it happens, it doesn't happen at the same rate in all of them. Some groups and armies are far more likely to rape than others. Therefore it's not simply a men thing.

I didn't say all armed conflicts. You did. I said most.

It doesn't happen at the same rate in all armed conflicts.

Are all Palestinians Hamas to you? All Palestinian children apprentice Hamas fighters? Please try to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians.

Outside of a few extremists I have yet to see anyone who is concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza justify the actions of Hamas.

Exploiting the brutal attacks on innocent Israelis to score points is reprehensible.

Women stay oddly silent at that here. Just chest beating screams of stop harming Gaza.

I think it's just men tbh. Gang rape happens in most armed conflicts. Even in Ukraine. It makes me think that given half a chance most men would do it if law and order broke down.