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Gaza war Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks A new 300-page report by the Israeli non-profit organization Civil Commission claims that Hamas engaged in sexual
Confirmed
Dr Elkayam-Levy said her organisation would send the report to the Israeli parliament to ensure it did not remain a civil project, but became a formal, adopted record of October 7. In 2023, Hamas officials said any sexual atrocities on October 7 were committed by other armed groups that crossed into Israel after Hamas militants breached the Gaza border fence.
Dr Elkayam-Levy's group said the case of the two related minors, who were held hostage and forced to perform sexual acts on each other, was revealed in a meeting its researchers conducted with a senior medical expert. She said she was beaten and forced to commit a sexual act on one of her captors — an account she also provided to the United Nations.
There are recurring accounts from the festival site, kibbutzim and military bases which were over-run of dead women found without their underwear, and corpses with genital mutilation. "My greatest fear was that he would notice me somewhere, and I wouldn't be able to defend myself, and then they would rape me," she said in her testimony.
He said he had also been raped, and the group revealed he had earlier agreed to a polygraph test to confirm his testimony was truthful. Ms Komarov said she had heard of another case where a woman was raped in front of her boyfriend, before they were both killed.
She was probably injured, judging by her screams, screams you have never heard anywhere," Ms Komarov said. There have been protests since the girl was found dead last week, three days after she went missing.
"They hit me so hard, strangled me to such an extent that blood came out of my eye," D said.
What's confirmed
- Dr Elkayam-Levy said her organisation would send the report to the Israeli parliament to ensure it did not remain a civil project, but became a formal, adopted record of October 7.
- Dr Elkayam-Levy's group said the case of the two related minors, who were held hostage and forced to perform sexual acts on each other, was revealed in a meeting its researchers conducted with a senior medical expert.
- There are recurring accounts from the festival site, kibbutzim and military bases which were over-run of dead women found without their underwear, and corpses with genital mutilation.
- He said he had also been raped, and the group revealed he had earlier agreed to a polygraph test to confirm his testimony was truthful.
- She was probably injured, judging by her screams, screams you have never heard anywhere," Ms Komarov said.
- "They hit me so hard, strangled me to such an extent that blood came out of my eye," D said.
What's still developing
- Dr Elkayam-Levy said her organisation would send the report to the Israeli parliament to ensure it did not remain a civil project, but became a formal, adopted record of October 7.
- In 2023, Hamas officials said any sexual atrocities on October 7 were committed by other armed groups that crossed into Israel after Hamas militants breached the Gaza border fence.
- Dr Elkayam-Levy's group said the case of the two related minors, who were held hostage and forced to perform sexual acts on each other, was revealed in a meeting its researchers conducted with a senior medical expert.
- She said she was beaten and forced to commit a sexual act on one of her captors — an account she also provided to the United Nations.
- She was probably injured, judging by her screams, screams you have never heard anywhere," Ms Komarov said.
- "My greatest fear was that he would notice me somewhere, and I wouldn't be able to defend myself, and then they would rape me," she said in her testimony.
- Ms Komarov said she had heard of another case where a woman was raped in front of her boyfriend, before they were both killed.
- He said he had also been raped, and the group revealed he had earlier agreed to a polygraph test to confirm his testimony was truthful.