JERUSALEM: A United Nations report launched Monday discovered indicators that sexual violence was dedicated in a number of areas throughout the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assault on Israel and mentioned that some hostages being held within the Gaza Strip had additionally been subjected to rape and sexual torture.
From late January to early February, the United Nations deployed a crew of consultants to Israel and the West Financial institution led by Pramila Patten, the secretary-general’s particular consultant on sexual violence in battle.
Of their report, the consultants mentioned they’d discovered “cheap grounds” to consider that sexual violence occurred throughout the Hamas-led incursion into Israel, together with rape and gang rape in at the very least three areas: the Nova music competition website and the realm round it, in addition to Highway 232 and Kibbutz Re’im.
“In most of those incidents, victims first subjected to rape have been then killed, and at the very least two incidents relate to the rape of girls’s corpses,” the report mentioned.
The UN report, which additionally cited allegations that Palestinians detained by Israel have additionally been sexually abused, was issued three months after The New York Instances revealed an in depth report on sexual violence throughout the Hamas-led assault. Hamas leaders denied the accusations, and the UN report, noting the array of fighters who took half within the Oct. 7 assault, mentioned its consultants couldn’t decide who was accountable for the sexual assaults.
Of their report, the UN consultants cited indications of sexual violence that had not beforehand been broadly reported, together with the rape of a girl exterior a bomb shelter on the entrance of Kibbutz Re’im. That incident was corroborated by witness testimony and digital materials, the report mentioned.
When it got here to the hostages seized in Israel and brought to Gaza, the report mentioned there was “clear and convincing data” based mostly on firsthand accounts of launched hostages that sexual violence was inflicted in opposition to some girls and youngsters throughout their time in captivity. It additionally mentioned there have been cheap grounds to consider that such abuse was happening in opposition to the hostages nonetheless being held.
From late January to early February, the United Nations deployed a crew of consultants to Israel and the West Financial institution led by Pramila Patten, the secretary-general’s particular consultant on sexual violence in battle.
Of their report, the consultants mentioned they’d discovered “cheap grounds” to consider that sexual violence occurred throughout the Hamas-led incursion into Israel, together with rape and gang rape in at the very least three areas: the Nova music competition website and the realm round it, in addition to Highway 232 and Kibbutz Re’im.
“In most of those incidents, victims first subjected to rape have been then killed, and at the very least two incidents relate to the rape of girls’s corpses,” the report mentioned.
The UN report, which additionally cited allegations that Palestinians detained by Israel have additionally been sexually abused, was issued three months after The New York Instances revealed an in depth report on sexual violence throughout the Hamas-led assault. Hamas leaders denied the accusations, and the UN report, noting the array of fighters who took half within the Oct. 7 assault, mentioned its consultants couldn’t decide who was accountable for the sexual assaults.
Of their report, the UN consultants cited indications of sexual violence that had not beforehand been broadly reported, together with the rape of a girl exterior a bomb shelter on the entrance of Kibbutz Re’im. That incident was corroborated by witness testimony and digital materials, the report mentioned.
When it got here to the hostages seized in Israel and brought to Gaza, the report mentioned there was “clear and convincing data” based mostly on firsthand accounts of launched hostages that sexual violence was inflicted in opposition to some girls and youngsters throughout their time in captivity. It additionally mentioned there have been cheap grounds to consider that such abuse was happening in opposition to the hostages nonetheless being held.
