Hamas sexual violence on 7th October attack. Content warning.

[ArabellaScott]

A new investigation has shared more information on details of Hamas' atrocities.

I do urge caution when reading, and don't if you are feeling fragile.

'An independent, Israeli investigation has published harrowing details of "systematic, widespread" sexual violence by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during the attacks on 7 October 2023, and against hostages.
The 300-page report concludes that rapes, sexual assault and sexual torture were intended "to maximize pain and suffering".
While the UN and others have published reports on sexual violence during the attacks – in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage – this is the most comprehensive.
It draws on 430 filmed interviews with survivors and witnesses, more than 10,000 photographs and videos filmed by attackers, and official records and material from attack sites.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz9k7pzggo

Waiting for the Jew haters to arrive.

Just awful - why do men feel it's ok to use sexual violence against women.....on all sides of War.

Not to play it down, but I think most people knew this.

The problem has been the stupid bureacracy about how something becomes official.

Which could have been resolved if in the first instance Netanyahu hadn't blocked the UN from carrying out an investigation at the time which they asked to do.

Rape has been a weapon of war for centuries.

I hadn't realised there had been an updated report from the UK APPG investigation, too. Came out in March.

(may be an obvious point, but content warning)

https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/

I just knew it would be Netanyahu's fault, somehow. Even I didn't expect it by post number three though.

Well him as a representative of a male government.

The men didn't think it was a priority.

If it hadn't been for the independent initiative of Israeli feminists at the time much of the evidence would have been lost.

Male dominated political parties use violence against women as a political tool when it suits them.

And Netenyahu and his Government were more interested in scoring points off the UN than violence against women.

Just as other male dominated Governments are.

It's a statement of fact.

This is so horrific and heartbreaking. So sad to see this, really awful.

And people glorify Hamas, praise the “Al Aqsa flood” and deny that terrorists who live-streamed themselves murdering would stoop to rape.

fuck Hamas and their fucking apologists. They’re animals.

Oh fuck off. The antizionist racists were declaring there were no rapes by October 8th. We were all watching the news and saw them. We all saw them tearing down the hostage posters. The rape denial is fuck all to do with BN and everything to do with racists who have so dehumanized Israelis and are so wedded to their brain rottingly simplistic oppressor/oppressed narrative that they would never, ever acknowledge the barbarity of their ‘noble’ Hamas theocratic, dictatorship terrorists. That self-identified feminists denied the sexual brutality of Hamas to side with male theocratic dictator terrorists was an unforgivable betrayal of the victims, and of feminism, and that is entirely on the heads of the women ( and men) who committed this betrayal and on no-one but them.

And what Hamas did was not war, as some above here are claiming with their false ‘both side-ism’ statements. This was an act of terrorist brutality of unimaginable and deliberate horror targeted at civilians. There is no both sides.

Thank you for posting this @ArabellaScott. Horrific. Given how many people deny that this went on I think it’s important to reference.

100 percent. The racist feminists who ‘forgot’ everything they know about the pattern of male violence because the victims were Israeli and the rapists were Hamas. Fuck them. Those women are not feminists. They are just racists.

This is massively out of proportion response to, and doesn't really even contradict, what IWanttoRetire said.

That's just what I was thinking; glad it's not just me!

Link to the study itself.

What is being emphasised here is not the fact these crimes happened, which yes we knew, but that they were deliberately planned and used as part of the attack method.

https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more

'Hamas and its collaborators used sexual violence as a widespread and systematic tactic. These were not isolated incidents. They followed recurring, organized patterns across multiple locations and phases of the attack, including during abduction, transfer, and prolonged captivity.'