Evidence Suggests Hamas Sexually Abused Dozens of Women in Israel and Mutilated Their Bodies

Among the crimes perpetrated by Hamas in their attack on October 7 in Israel Numerous sexual attacks against Israeli women appear. This is demonstrated by internal investigations and testimonies offered on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York.

According to what is known so far, the attackers not only carried out sexual violationsthey also made mutilations and they desecrated corpses. The evidence comes mainly from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and officials of that country.

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The American chain NBCNews published a report on the extreme violence carried out by Islamists. This report is based on five interrogations of combatants from Hamas what were captured, a document in Arabic that told the militant group how to pronounce “take off your pants” in Hebrew, six images of naked or partially naked female corpses, seven eyewitness accounts of sexual violence11 testimonies from first responders and two stories from morgue workers who handled the bodies of the victims after being recovered from the massacre.

According to the testimony of the first emergency elements who responded to the attack, it was found the body of a woman mutilated with scissors and another stabbed with a knife. They also observed that the genitals of some murdered men were mutilated, NBC News indicates.

Israeli officials told the channel that the militants were instructed to systematically carry out sexual violence against women and children.

“They had a mania with sexual organsboth in women and men,” a lifeguard told the police in a testimony that was recorded on video.

A woman whose job was to open women’s body bags and prepare their bodies for burial told NBC News on Monday that saw multiple female corpses that had been mutilated. “They were shot in the vagina and chest,” she said. “It looked like a systematic attempt at genital mutilation”.

NBC News noted that the most detailed account of rape is that of a young woman who attended the Supernova music festivalnear the border with Gaza and where more than 350 young people died.

“He knocked down a woman and I understood that he was raping her… he passed her to another person,” the witness explained to police in a video reviewed by NBC News. She “He cut off her breasts, threw her on the road; “They were playing with her.”

Regarding the interrogations of the members of Hamas detained, NBC News said that they spoke of raping women and children as a tactic of war, “to get our way, to dirty them, to rape them.”

1,200 people died

In the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, the majority were civilians.

Another captured militant refers to the bodies raped on October 7. “Having sex with corpses”, he said in a videotaped interrogation reviewed by NBC News. “I am referring to the body of a dead young woman,” she added.

An IDF rescue unit soldier testified that he saw two girls lying in a bedroom, one of them half naked, with her legs spread, and said he saw what appeared to be sperm on her back.

First responders described several women bleeding from their crotch area. “There was a woman’s body that had a blood stain on her genitals. At first I thought she might have had an accident out of fear,” one of them told police investigators in a recorded testimony. “When we picked it up we knew for sure it was blood.”

Testimonies at the UN

Simchat Greymana volunteer who helped collect the remains of the victims of the October 7 attack on Israelgave his testimony on Monday in the from the UN In New York.

According to a report by cnn, Greyman had to stop several times when describing the tests of sexual violence what he saw when he recovered the bodies of the women.

He maintained that one of the bodies was so badly battered that he and his colleagues at ZAKA, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish human remains recovery organization, They couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman.

He also saw a woman shot in the back of the head who was lying on her bed, naked from the waist down. He had a grenade in his hand.

Another body had nails. “They called me to a house, they told me that there were a few bodies there. I saw before my eyes a woman lying down. “She was naked and she had nails…” he said. Greyman before taking a long pause, struggling to get the words out, CNN reported.

“She had nails and different objects in her female organs. “Her body was brutalized in such a way that we could not identify her,” she added.

The United Nations session on sexual and gender violence in the terrorist attack of Hamas on October 7 was organized by Israel.

At the same meeting at the UN, Yael Richertsuperintendent of the Israel Police, gave information about the investigation he is carrying out.

He noted that survivors of the attack told investigators they had witnessed terrorists from Hamas They perpetrated acts of sexual violence against the victims.

“There were girls with broken pelvises from repeated rapes, with their legs split open,” Richert said, quoting a survivor of the music festival massacre.

“We heard girls being taken out of shelters. Girls who screamed. They raped the girls. They burned them right after. “All the bodies outside were burned.”Richert said when reading another testimony.

CNN also shared the testimony of Shari Mendes, an IDF reservist who took care of the bodies of female soldiers killed during the attack. She said that many of the bodies arrived in “torn and bloody rags or only underwear.” and this was often very bloody.”

“Our team commander saw several female soldiers who had received shots in the crotch, in private parts, in the vagina or on the chest. “There seems to be systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims,” ​​he said. mendes.

Despite the evidence, Hamas has denied allegations of sexual violence during the October 7 attack.

In a statement published on Monday, the Islamist group condemned “Zionist campaigns that spread lies and unfounded accusations to demonize the Palestinian resistance.”

Pressure on the United Nations

For his part, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahureproached the UN for what it noted as the delay in recognizing complaints of sexual violence committed by Hamas.

While on December 2 UN Women expressed alarm over the “numerous reports” of sexual violence in the Hamas attacks of October 7 and supported a commission of inquiry into crimes of this type “during and since” that date carried out by the organization.

He added that he is actively supporting the Commission of Inquiry into the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, who began to investigate the sexual violence shortly after the attacks and which has recently enabled the delivery of information related to crimes committed since October 7.

According to the UN independent international commission’s website, the investigation “is devoting particular attention to allegations of gender-based crimes, with emphasis on murder and hostage-taking, rape and other forms of sexual violence.”

“We continue to call for accountability for all acts of gender-based violence committed during and after October 7, the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining hostages, and a humanitarian ceasefire,” he said. UN Women.