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 don’t know what to tell you other than are straight up believing propaganda my human. Like, your empathy with the Palestinians is commendable, but your lack of empathy for Israelis is abhorrent.
I’ll make a few statements about what I see in the situation, but picking through every piece of disinformation is exhausting and I don’t have the time to continually engage with you at this time.
Palestinians are suffering and dying horribly in Gaza in very unjust ways.
Netanyahu wants to expand Israel, and doesn’t believe in a two state solution.
Netanyahu does not want the conflict to end without a major victory, because his political career is over once the conflict is.
The hard right of Israel doesn’t care about the suffering of the Palestinians.
Hamas is brutal, effective, and in many ways immoral.
Hamas does not believe in a two state solution, wishes to destroy the nation of Israel, calling for the removal or killing of all Jews in Israel.
Hamas does not want this conflict to end because it benefits their goals. They gain international support, and power when Palestinians suffer and die.