“We have also documented a case of gang rape… on a woman……She said she was filmed during the assault… [they] stripped her, kept beating her in her genitals … humiliated her for four hours. She said the cameras were recording the whole time.”

The average Westerner who reads only mainstream media coverage of the Middle East might think this is what Hamas fighters did to Israeli women on Oct. 7.

But actually, it’s what Israeli troops are alleged to have done to Palestinian women.

These advocates’ testimony is so shocking and horrific that it should have been front-page news around the world and sparked global feminist outrage. Instead, it was resolutely ignored by the Western press, white feminists, and politicians across Europe and the United States.

While major media outlets such as the BBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post published stories referencing, in broad terms, a UN report that came out just after the testimony on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence” since Oct. 7, none of them cited or bothered to mention any of Khraim’s devastating testimony. Surely, such detailed revelations, and specific allegations of rape and gang rape, warrant their own story?