{"id":15900,"date":"2024-02-22T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sexual-assaults-carried-out-systematically-during-hamas-attack-israeli-report-says\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:47:08","slug":"sexual-assaults-carried-out-systematically-during-hamas-attack-israeli-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sexual-assaults-carried-out-systematically-during-hamas-attack-israeli-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual assaults carried out \u2018systematically\u2019 during Hamas attack, Israeli report says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli civilians suffered \u201cbrutal sexual assaults\u201d that were carried out \u201csystematically and deliberately\u201d during Hamas\u2019 October 7 attacks, according to a report published by the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The report, which includes testimonies from eyewitnesses, first responders, forensic experts, and news articles, says Hamas militants who entered Israel used extreme acts of sexual violence against their victims and, in most cases, killed them \u201cafter or even during the rape.\u201d <\/p>\n

The report does not detail how many cases of sexual assault it has documented nor is it clear if it spoke to victims, although it notes that in most cases \u201cthe victims were killed after or even during the rape.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMany of those who have been\u00a0raped and tortured were murdered, unable to ever voice their experiences. When most of the victims of sexual assaults are murdered, we have a moral and humanitarian obligation to amplify their silent cry,\u201d the report said. <\/p>\n

According to evidence collected by the ARCCI, men, women, and children were all victims of gruesome sexual abuse on October 7. The report outlines witness testimony of the brutality of the sexual crimes, including that of gang rape at the Nova music festival, in the desert of southern Israel. <\/p>\n

The report said that \u201cseveral survivors of the massacre (Nova) provided eyewitness testimony of gang rape, where women were abused and handled between multiple terrorists who beat, injured, and ultimately killed them.\u201d <\/p>\n

Furthermore, some rapes were carried out in front of an \u201caudience\u201d of the victims\u2019 partners, family, or friends, intended to \u201cincrease pain and humiliation of all present,\u201d the report said. <\/p>\n

Testimony from first responders and forensic experts who spoke to the ARCCI revealed that the genitals of several bodies were mutilated. Some victims in the communities near the Gaza Strip, the report said, were women or young girls \u201cwho were raped, mostly in their bedrooms, while partially dressed in their pajamas.\u201d <\/p>\n

Two former hostages who were released in late November described witnessing and hearing about other hostages being assaulted while in captivity, according to their testimony, which the report emphasizes is likely continuing to happen to the hostages that remain in Gaza. <\/p>\n

The ARCCI is an umbrella organization for nine regional Rape Crisis Centers. It is the only organization in Israel whose main aim is to combat sexual violence, according to its website. <\/p>\n

Israeli police have been using forensic evidence,\u00a0video,\u00a0witness testimony and interrogations of suspects to document cases of rape amid the\u00a0October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. <\/p>\n

Orit Sulitzeanu, CEO of ARCCI, said the report had been \u201csubmitted to decision-makers at the UN [United Nations],\u201d according to a release by Israel\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. <\/p>\n

UN Women released a statement in December condemning the attacks and saying it was \u201calarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks.\u201d At the time, it was criticized for being slow to denounce the\u00a0reports of rape against Israelis. <\/p>\n

On Monday, UN experts called for an investigation into what they described as \u201ccredible allegations of egregious human rights violations\u201d against Palestinian women and girls in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0and the West Bank by\u00a0Israeli forces. <\/p>\n

The allegations include extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention, degrading treatment, rape and sexual violence, according to a statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. <\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israeli civilians suffered \u201cbrutal sexual assaults\u201d that were carried out \u201csystematically and deliberately\u201d during Hamas\u2019 October 7 attacks, according to a report published by the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) on Wednesday. The report, which includes testimonies from eyewitnesses, first responders, forensic experts, and news articles, says Hamas militants who entered Israel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}