{"id":16420,"date":"2024-03-05T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/un-team-finds-convincing-information-that-hostages-in-gaza-were-raped\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:46:41","slug":"un-team-finds-convincing-information-that-hostages-in-gaza-were-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/un-team-finds-convincing-information-that-hostages-in-gaza-were-raped\/","title":{"rendered":"UN team finds \u2018convincing\u2019 information that hostages in Gaza were raped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A United Nations team has found \u201cclear and\u00a0convincing\u201d information that hostages in Gaza were sexually abused, Pramila Patten, the UN special envoy on sexual violence\u00a0in conflict\u00a0told reporters on Monday. There are \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe the sexual violence is ongoing, she added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            According to Patten, the team also found \u201creasonable grounds to believe that conflict related sexual violence, including rape and gang rape occurred\u201d during Hamas\u2019 October 7 terror attack in Israel, in what is the most definitive finding by the global organization on sexual assault allegations in the aftermath of the attack.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The UN team, which was led by Patten, visited Israel between January 29 to February 14 for a mission \u201caimed at gathering, analyzing, and verifying information on conflict-related sexual violence\u201d during October 7 and its aftermath, according to a 24-page report.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Patten stressed on Monday that the mission \u201cwas neither intended nor mandated to be investigative in nature,\u201d adding that the team had 33 meetings with Israeli institutions while in Israel, interviewed 34 people, including survivors and witnesses to the October 7 attack, and released hostages, as well as reviewed 50 hours of footage of the attacks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The mission was not able to meet with any victims of sexual violence on October 7 \u201cdespite our efforts,\u201d Patten said. \u201cOn the very first day, I made a call for survivors to come forward. But we received information that a handful of them were receiving very specialized trauma treatment and were not prepared to come forward,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Hamas has previously denied that its militants committed rape during the October 7 attack.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cWe strongly reject and denounce the coordination of some Western media outlets with the Zionist misleading campaigns that promote unfounded lies and allegations aimed at demonizing the Palestinian resistance, the latest of which is the allegation that resistance members committed \u2018sexual violence\u2019 during the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th,\u201d Hamas\u2019 political office said in a statement on Telegram in December.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Nations team has found \u201cclear and\u00a0convincing\u201d information that hostages in Gaza were sexually abused, Pramila Patten, the UN special envoy on sexual violence\u00a0in conflict\u00a0told reporters on Monday. There are \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe the sexual violence is ongoing, she added. According to Patten, the team also found \u201creasonable grounds to believe that conflict <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","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\/16420","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=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}