A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
“In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed,” a press release announcing the report’s findings said. “The mission team also found a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound, and shot across multiple locations.”
The 23-page report said the team also found “clear and convincing information” that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to “rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” There were “reasonable grounds to believe,” it said, “that this violence may be ongoing.”
i haven’t reviewed the un’s claim, only the AP writeup which was pretty thin. all the “evidence” I’ve subjected myself to is, as you said, hearsay or innuendo.
I had been pretty cavalier, saying it didn’t happen, but the headline on this post does give me pause.
Every time one of these reports comes out I check it to make sure I’m not wrong. And every time it’s just a load of horseshit. This is like the 5th time we’re hearing the same allegations without evidence after the last 4 were debunked.
I was called crazy when I said the NYT report looked like a complete fraud three months ago since there was no evidence. Now that report is falling apart the UN comes in to rescue the day with more completely unverified claims.