Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk

Back to thread
Original poster

Horrors of violence towards women on October the 7th suppressed

1 reply

mids2019 · 04/12/2023 21:05

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67613153

It looks like the UN may have been reluctant to investigate or highlight the sickening sexual violence committed on October 7th. It also appears some of the hostages may have been abused.

Was this because the horrendous violence doesn't fit in with that purely Palestinians are victims of this ongoing conflict? Are investigations into these crimes because women are viewed as second class citizens or the revelations 'muddy the waters' where some just want to see one side as the victim.

Israeli soldiers hug as they look at pictures of the Nova music festival victims at the site of the festival near Kibbutz Reim

Hamas planned sexual violence as weapon of war - Israeli campaigner

An Israeli campaigner says militants planned acts of sexual violence committed in October's attack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67613153

Go to post
MNHQ

HopeMumsnet · 05/12/2023 13:01

Hi all,
We have been through the thread and moderated it, but do feel free to draw our attention to anything that we and your fellow reporters have missed.

We wish to re-iterate our approach to this conversation - we think that posters should be able to engage in political discourse, including criticism of governments and their policies. However, we do appreciate that this needs to remain within the boundaries of respectful and legitimate political debate.

We would remove any posts reported to us that employ stereotypes, invoke harmful conspiracy theories, or target Jewish people or Palestinian people as a whole rather than focusing on specific policies, actions, or government. Please report anything like this if you see it on the boards, and feel free to challenge opinions with which you disagree.

We'd like to think that threads such as this one can remain open and that posters can pool information and express solidarity in good faith at a terrible, terrible time, but we must counsel everyone that those who cannot post according to our guidelines may find their posting privileges removed altogether.

Watch this thread for updates

Tap "Watch" to get all the latest updates

End of posts

There are no more MNHQ posts on this thread

Back to thread