Everywhere Hamas terrorists struck on Oct. 7 — at the rave near Kibbuz Re'im, at the military bases along the Gaza border, and kibbutz after kibbutz — they brutalized women, the New York Times reported on Thursady, citing Israeli officials.
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An extensive, two-month New York Times investigation determined these assaults on women were not random, isolated incidents but rather part of a greater pattern of Hamas-perpetrated gender-based violence. For months, Israeli activists strongly condemned UN Secretary General António Guterres along with the UN Women agency for failing to promptly acknowledge initial allegations of abuse until weeks post-attack.
New York Times journalists pinpointed no less than seven sites where available evidence suggests Israeli women and girls endured sexual violation or mutilation. My colleagues relayed many profoundly disturbing victim testimonies and visual documentation of these war crimes. One deeply distressing photo captured a female corpse defiled by dozens of nails pierced through her thighs and genital region. Israeli military footage displayed two deceased female IDF soldiers who underwent apparent fatal gunshots directly to their vaginas. A witness informed colleagues that one Hamas fighter raped an Israeli woman while another concurrent severed the victim's breast.
Israel Hayom recently interviewed the women working to collect testimony and preserve evidence of the horrific sexual violence from that day.
