Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October
Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE
I call bullshit, whoever wrote this piece without questioning the validity of the witness statements needs to go back to school for journalism. Some of these claims are transparently fallacious to anyone with any medical training.
Random volunteers aren't going to be able to examine victims for sexual assault based on bruising, or lacerations found while collecting bodies. That's going to require an actual autopsy by an actual medical examiner. Also, how is a volunteer going to inspect if a body has a pelvic fracture, and what does that have to do with sexual assault? Sacral fractures are only associated with SA for a very young child, and then only at 5% of SA victims age 5 or younger.
I found it odd that they published claims from volunteers and politicians, but I have yet to hear from an actual MD that corroborates their claims.
You’re getting downvoted but the piece states “The BBC could not independently verify this account.”
One of the quotes is someone saying they didn’t see the violent attack but sexual assault just sounds different.
Any reasonable person can agree that Hamas is not good, we don’t need propaganda making them appear like complete monsters.
Yes. That is reporting. Especially in the wake of outlets jumping the gun on a lot of other aspects of this.
But if you read through the rest of the article, they reference
Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.
Videos filmed by Hamas include footage of one woman, handcuffed and taken hostage with cuts to her arms and a large patch of blood staining the seat of her trousers.
In others, women carried away by the fighters appear to be naked or semi-clothed.
Multiple photographs from the sites after the attack show the bodies of women naked from the waist down, or with their underwear ripped to one side, legs splayed, with signs of trauma to their genitals and legs.
Even if you believe that there is a focused effort to plant government agents at every single level and with multiple aide organizations all to promote some evil conspiracy: The above is footage and images that reporters (and civilians who click the wrong links online...) have seen.
So yes, it is mostly circumstantial evidence (which, regardless of what tv lawyers say, still has validity) indicating violent trauma and tearing of clothes of women's genital regions. Combine that with the sad truth that men given guns and power and unleashed on civilian populations tend to commit rape and... there is a lot of evidence of rape.
And if you believe any of the witness and victim accounts (that were also given to non-Israeli sources) then it is truly horrific and... on par with what ISIS/ISIL do on a daily basis. Which makes sense considering the speculation that Iran is heavily involved in all of this.
And if Israel were killing hamas instead of innocent civilians, no one would be concerned.
this comment is just disgusting
Only if you're ok with killing civilians, if you're not is a normal comment.
I think Israel would lose most of, if not all of it's support, even from the US, if it was found out that their troops were regularly committing sexual mutilation and rapes on Palestinian civilians. This is a step beyond just killing innocents. It's universally revolting behavior.
Holy crap Hamas really was trying to get bingo on their war crime card. The horror of their crimes is next level.
The whataboutism crowd should soon pile on to excuse Hamas as justified and righteousness. No evil to see here definitely! 🤮
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.
"It really feels like Hamas learned how to weaponise women's bodies from ISIS [the Islamic State group] in Iraq, from cases in Bosnia," said Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, a legal expert at the Davis Institute of International Relations at Hebrew University.
One of the body-collectors volunteering with the religious organisation Zaka described to me signs of torture and mutilation which included, he said, a pregnant woman whose womb had been ripped open before she was killed, and her foetus stabbed while it was inside her.
Investigators admit that in those first chaotic days after the attacks, with some areas still active combat zones, opportunities to carefully document the crime scenes, or take forensic evidence, were limited or missed.
When we visited, hospital trolleys, their iron skeletons topped with khaki stretchers, stood neatly lined up in front of the containers that housed the dead; the white plastic overalls of those on shift translucent under the floodlights.
Amid the horror of what happened to women here, Captain Maayan from the Shura identification unit says the hardest moments are when she sees "the mascara on their eyelashes, or the earrings they put on that morning".
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What do you mean Sunday and Monday can rape people?
Kind of throws a monkey wrench in the whole "Just leave Gaza" mentality you see so often.
I mean, everyone hates Hamas but it’s a scooch more complex than that. I don’t think “leaving” Gaza involves a 16 year blockade and control over their electricity, water, and telecommunications. And it ignores the West Bank.
I’m not siding with fucking Hamas but everyone reducing this to the atrocities on Oct. 7 had better be under 25. It’s annoying the fuck out of the old people who remember a time before Rihanna and the MCU.
Please note: Had Israel, "Just left Gaza", anytime in the past forty Years, Oct. 7th would never have happened. Sadly despite all the claims of having pulled out of Gaza and the West Bank, all they really did was withdraw the troops from their Concentration Camps.