A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
“In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed,” a press release announcing the report’s findings said. “The mission team also found a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound, and shot across multiple locations.”
The 23-page report said the team also found “clear and convincing information” that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to “rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” There were “reasonable grounds to believe,” it said, “that this violence may be ongoing.”
Initially they hostages said they were not raped. Then slowly they started saying they had to use psychological warfare to not be raped, and now they are raped. Very dynamic stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIMfc1y59mM
This UN report is citing Zaka (40 beheaded babies) as a “credible source,” it is complete propaganda.
New breaking points video debunking this report with an important takeaway:
What a load of shit.
That clip is pure propaganda, deceptively edited, and completely out of context… The stories of Chen Almog-Goldstein and her 17 year old daughter Agam have not changed.
If you don’t believe me, try watching the full interview.
https://vimeo.com/899212136
Your video is login-blocked but those people were in fact not raped. If anything they are further evidence that no rapes happened.
After that the article derails into some hearsay about anonymous unconfirmed rumors. Strangely the people you are citing have certainly not experienced that.
The UN report being filled with the same claims used by NYT which have been completely debunked does not lend it any credibility either.
Rapes, murders, and acts of violence were absolutely committed by members of Hamas. This is perhaps an uncomfortable truth for you.
I think you mean the people you used as evidence by posting a chopped up propaganda clip. I merely linked to the full interview where they did not speak highly of their captors.
Strange how the UN is infallible when they agree with Hamas, but when they don’t it’s “hearsay about anonymous unconfirmed rumors.” /s
That report has not been “debunked,” despite what you claim, or what The Intercept published about the New York Times.
The video you linked contained zero evidence of anyone being raped. Alongside everything else you claim.
In fact it shows this girl struggling between being gaslit by the IDF which tells her she went trough the Holocaust and her own experiences which boil down to “we were not tortured nor sexually violated in during our captivity”.
The UN report goes out of the window the second they used the Nova festival for their evidence as we factually know that those claims were fake. In the UN report there is also no forensic evidence. Everything hinges on “anonymous witness statements”
Another big difference is that the Palestinian women raped by the IDF themselves claim they were raped. Whereas this current report only quotes “witnesses”.
I don’t know what to tell you other than are straight up believing propaganda my human. Like, your empathy with the Palestinians is commendable, but your lack of empathy for Israelis is abhorrent.
I’ll make a few statements about what I see in the situation, but picking through every piece of disinformation is exhausting and I don’t have the time to continually engage with you at this time.
Palestinians are suffering and dying horribly in Gaza in very unjust ways.
Netanyahu wants to expand Israel, and doesn’t believe in a two state solution.
Netanyahu does not want the conflict to end without a major victory, because his political career is over once the conflict is.
The hard right of Israel doesn’t care about the suffering of the Palestinians.
Hamas is brutal, effective, and in many ways immoral.
Hamas does not believe in a two state solution, wishes to destroy the nation of Israel, calling for the removal or killing of all Jews in Israel.
Hamas does not want this conflict to end because it benefits their goals. They gain international support, and power when Palestinians suffer and die.
i haven’t reviewed the un’s claim, only the AP writeup which was pretty thin. all the “evidence” I’ve subjected myself to is, as you said, hearsay or innuendo.
I had been pretty cavalier, saying it didn’t happen, but the headline on this post does give me pause.
Every time one of these reports comes out I check it to make sure I’m not wrong. And every time it’s just a load of horseshit. This is like the 5th time we’re hearing the same allegations without evidence after the last 4 were debunked.
I was called crazy when I said the NYT report looked like a complete fraud three months ago since there was no evidence. Now that report is falling apart the UN comes in to rescue the day with more completely unverified claims.
Oh Jesus. Let me delete my last comment.
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I think it’s important to separate the narrative of the hostages themselves versus the scores of dead bodies left on October 7th, which were the focus of this report. I have been looking for evidence to confirm or refute these allegations for months, and the issues surrounding it can be summarized mainly as stemming from evidence collection.
Due to the active fighting in the area, forensics did not arrive to process the body until days later, leading to a significant loss of forensic evidence as the bodies decayed in the heat for days. Without that, there’s no evidence to indicate exactly what transpired in terms of sexual crimes and why the investigation has gone down its current path.
I don’t know how much of the evidence they’ve collected will be made public, but the descriptions in the linked report are very graphic and leave little doubt that sexual assaults took place.