UN blacklists Hamas terrorists after verifying sexual violence in Oct. 7 massacre

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Article in Ynet news & other sources reporting that the United Nations has formally acknowledged that Hamas terrorists committed — and continue to commit — some of the most brutal sexual crimes on record, including rape, gang rape, genital mutilation and sexual abuse in captivity.

After UN Secretary-General António Guterres resisted adding the terror group to the “blacklist” last year, and following extensive efforts by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the UN is expected on August 14 to distribute the Secretary-General’s annual report to all members of the General Assembly.

The report details the “blacklist” of groups committing sexual crimes in armed conflicts — and, for the first time, it includes Hamas.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjxudsidxg

They won’t win. There’s reams of proof regarding Palestinian prisoners and detainees being raped. The sad thing is that only the gang rape of a male detainee made the news. Not a peep about all the women and girls raped.

The sad fact is that we are not safe with any man no matter their creed or nationality. Even our own men rape us. To think that the IDF is some first in the history of humanity exception is bonkers.

Oh… but, but, but it never happened! #freepalestine!!’ It was the fact these absolute moronic campaigners (greta, celebs, the white middle class) refuse to acknowledge of accept that this violence happened which highlighted the hypocrisy of the Free Palestine movement and why I will never support it. I do not agree with what Israel is doing in Gaza hur the constant denial that HAMAS are to blame and the fact not one protestor can call them out on their behaviour means I will always condemn these marches. I realise the left and right are as bad as each other!!

I think the case is mainly about the dog rape claims? Theres no evidence of that which I'm aware of- but why would I be I guess?

It’s not true that Antonio Guterres resisted adding Hamas to the list. It was the investigator Emilia Patten who said in 2024:
“However, the report notes that, due to time constraints and the team's professional capacity, it is currently unable to attribute all of the incidents in the attack to Hamas, given the possibility that some were carried out by Islamic Jihad terrorists or Gazan civilians who infiltrated Israel following the initial attack.” On 3 April 2024, the UN published a report on Hamas sexual violence
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1bwwkmt6

So while the sexual violence by “Gazan armed gangs” were listed, Hamas was not specifically named in the 2024 report published in latter half of 2025.

Guterres was just as upset that office within the UN didn’t specifically name Hamas, that he announced in 2025 right after the 2024 report was published that Hamas would definitely be named in the 2025 report which is published this year in 2026 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjvvy6ddeg.

I know it’s hard to believe, but it was a woman who dug her heels in at specifically naming Hamas imho.

What claims are those? I’m referring to the evidence of the rape of humans, not dogs.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/report-of-the-commission-of-inquiry-israel-gender-based-violence-13march2025/

I agree it should not have taken this long. I don’t know if the delay is abnormally long though because I hadn’t really paid attention to how long it took for similar terror groups in other conflicts to be specifically named in these UN reports.

I read the report, and wept.

Same. In addition, the embargoed all over it means the UN held back from making it publicly available for some unknown period of time. Wiki says
”An embargo on a UN report means that the information in the report cannot be publicly disclosed or published until a specified date or condition is met. This is often done to coordinate the release of information and ensure that all parties have access to it at the same time.”

This, but also this was a mass terrorist atrocity against civilians anyway. They deliberately slaughtered babies and children and women and men and the elderl and disabled. These were not people killed as as a ‘happenstance’ of war. They were deliberately and individually killed up close and in person. Face to face.

Unless it normally takes two years and lobbying for the UN to blacklist terrorists ( and the UN had not been quiet in its criticism of Israel for two years) then this would seem to show how biased and captured against Israel the UN is.

They have also backed TWAW without needing weighty evidence that they are, so yes, the UN is a mess of ideological capture seems most likely.

Ah sorry, perhaps I misunderstood.
I thought you were referring to the NYT article that included claims Israelis have trained dogs to rape Palestinians. This is the one Israel is taking action against.

I was referring to this article:
”Unfortunately The New York Times saw fit to publish a report about rapes of Palestinian prisoners by the IDF, 24 hours before the report on October 7 atrocities was published. The Israeli Government is suing the NYT for defamation. Hope they win.”

And this defamation case
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-sue-new-york-times-sexual-abuse-palestinian-prisoners

““Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,” Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs wrote in a social media post on Thursday.
“They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu added in a statement to Reuters. “We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.”

Clearly the involvement of dogs in sexual abuse is a side bar.

Awful. They filmed themselves, Hamas, other terrorist groups and Palestinian citizens. It happened. Rape is never resistance.

Thank you for correcting that and agree that it's particularly hard to understand how a woman could have dug her heels in at specifically naming Hamas.