Barbaric Hamas terrorists had “a thing with sexual organs’’ and targeted the genitalia of male and female victims during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to harrowing United Nations testimony Monday.
Some of the fiends’ unspeakable acts involved a murdered woman found with “nails and different objects in her female organs” and a gang-rape victim who had one of her breasts cut off — with her attackers then playing with it in the road, Israel said.
There were “horrific things I saw with my own eyes and I felt with my own hands,” said stricken Simcha Greinman, a volunteer who helped collect the remains of the slaughtered victims, according to the New York Times.
The Jewish state accused the UN during the special session of moving too slowly to address reports that the terror group unleashed sexual violence as a weapon of war in its attack, NBC News reported.
“This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News.
“Sadly, the very international bodies that are supposedly the defenders of all women showed that when it comes to Israelis, indifference is acceptable,” he said.
“To these organizations, Israeli women are not women, the rape of Israelis is not an act of rape. Their silence has been deafening,” he added, referring to UN groups and the international community.
About 800 people, including Jewish groups and diplomats from dozens of countries, attended the presentation, which laid out the evidence of large-scale sexual violence.
A female police officer said in video testimony played at the event that during the sneak attack, “shooting was targeted at sexual organs,” adding, “We saw that a lot,” All Israel reported.
“The women we received, they were civilian. … We mainly saw either breast amputations or gunshots just to the breast, simply shooting from one side of the breast to the other,” another female cop said.
“As for men, they were also shot in their genitalia,” she added.
One of the officers said, “They had a thing with sexual organs — both in women and in men, either amputation or targeted shooting [to that part of the body],” the Messenger reported.
Shari Mendes, a member of an Israel Defense Forces reserve unit in charge of identifying and preparing the bodies of female soldiers for burial, also testified that she saw “systematic genital mutilation,” according to All Israel.
One female survivor of the attack on a musical festival where hundreds of people were massacred described how a woman was raped during the atrocity.
“I remember how [one attacker] shifted her position, then passed her on to another person,” she recalled in the video testimony.
“She was alive. … She was standing. … She was bleeding from her back. … She had a long hair, and he was pulling it. … She wasn’t dressed. … He cut her breast. He threw it on the road, and they played with it,” the woman recounted in the gruesome testimony.
Israeli national police Superintendent Yael Richert, who presented the sickening accounts, said, “Everything was an apocalypse of corpses — girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some were beheaded.”…
Survivor recalls how ‘woman with the face of an angel’ was gang raped by 10 terrorists, while others were shot in the genitals or beheaded.
By David Rosenberg, World Israel News
As hostages returned to Israel during last week’s ceasefire share details of the atrocities they witnessed during the October 7th invasion, alongside testimonies by other survivors of the Hamas massacres, there is growing evidence that the Gaza-based terror organization conducted an orchestrated campaign of sexual terror and physical mutilation.
While signs of rape and torture were evident since the immediate aftermath of the October 7th invasion, physical evidence gathered from the scenes of the various massacres and testimony from witnesses appears to corroborate claims by a number of captured Hamas terrorists that they were encouraged to rape Israeli women and girls and to behead their victims to instill fear.
Yoni Saadon, a 39-year-old a foundry shift manager and father of four, was one of the survivors at the Supernova music festival outside of Re’im, where at least 364 partygoers were slaughtered by Gaza terrorists.
Speaking with The Sunday Times, Saadon recalled the grisly atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists, including decapitation and gang rape.
Hiding under the dead body of a women shot during the initial attack, Saadon smeared her blood on himself to convince passing terrorists he too was dead.
An hour later, Saadon witnessed a young woman begging to be killed as she was gang raped by at least eight Hamas terrorists.
“I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.
Later, hiding in some bushes, Saadon saw another young woman decapitated with a shovel after she resisted attempts by two terrorists to rape her.
“They had caught a young woman near a car and she was fighting back, not allowing them to strip her. They threw her to the ground and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her and her head rolled along the ground.”
Shelly Harush, an Israel Police commander tasked with investigating the sexual terrorism committed on October 7th, shared some of the horrifying details of testimonials collected by witnesses and search and rescue teams, who often found undeniable signs of sexual assault and torture.
“It’s clear now that sexual crimes were part of the planning and the purpose was to terrify and humiliate people,” Harush told the Times.
“As a Jewish mother the mind and soul cannot bear,” Harush continued, describing “girls whose pelvises were broken they had been raped so much.”
Some of the sexual abuse was evident in video footage released by the Hamas terrorists themselves, including videos of women who had been stripped, including some with blood visible on their underwear.
When volunteers from ZAKA, the rescue and recovery organization, began collecting the victims’ remains, however, it became clear the scope of the sexual assaults was far greater than initially believed.
Many of the murdered women and girls were found stripped partially or completely naked, and many had clear signs of sexual violence, including bloody genitalia.
“We didn’t understand at first,” said Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, who is leading a civilian probe into sexual terrorism during the October 7th invasion.
In some cases, the murdered victims bore signs of sexual mutilation, including gunshot wounds to their genitals.
“Their faces were in anguish and often their fingers clenched as they died,” said Shari, 60-year-0ld Jerusalemite who volunteered to help identify the victims’ remains and prepare them for burial.
“We saw women whose pelvises were broken. Legs broken. There were women who had been shot in the crotch, in the breasts.”
“There seems no doubt what happened to them.”
Where are the calls for crimes against humanity charges against Hamas? This is even more shameful than the West's lack of response to the Holocaust.
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Progressive congresswoman dismisses
Hamas rapes – ‘It happens in war’
Democratic congresswoman appears to blame Israel for the terrorist rapes of Israeli women.
Of course, this is Islamic logic!
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Democratic congresswoman and member of the Progressive “Squad” Pramila Jayapal dismissed Hamas sexual crimes against Israeli women with the statement “It happens in war situations” on CNN Sunday.
Forensic evidence and witness testimony have painted a gruesome portrait of the Hamas massacre on October 7th, one that includes myriad forms of sexual violence in addition to torture, murder, and abduction.
Israel advocates have condemned the silence of the United Nations and international women’s groups in the face of these crimes, and CNN host Dana Bash brought up this topic with Rep. Jayapal in an interview.
“I want to ask you about sexual violence, and it’s kind of remarkable that this issue hasn’t gotten enough attention, globally. Widespread use of rape, brutal rape, sexual violence against Israeli women by Hamas.”
Bash continued, “I’ve seen a lot of progressive women, generally speaking, they’re quick to defend women’s rights and to speak out against using rape as a weapon of war, but downright silent on what we saw on October 7. And what might be happening inside Gaza right now to these hostages. Why is that?”
Jayapal responded, “We have to remember Israel is a democracy. That is why they’re a strong ally of ours. And if they do not comply with international humanitarian law, they are bringing themselves to a place that makes it much more difficult strategically for them to be able to build allies, to keep public opinion with them, and frankly, morally.”
The congresswoman continued, “We cannot say that one war crime deserves another. That is not what international humanitarian law says.”
To address the congresswoman’s failure to condemn the Hamas attacks and specifically the use of rape as a weapon of war, Dana Bash persisted.
“With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas.”
“I think that rape is horrific, sexual assault is horrific, I think it happens in war situations,” replied Jayapal. “However I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians, 15,000 Palestinians have been killed.”
Bash made the point, “And it’s horrible, but you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.”
Or, cutting off their breasts, shooting them in their breasts or vagina, cutting their heads off, gang-raping girls till their pelvis is broken, or any of the other atrocities Hamas committed on Oct 7th.
If the IDF did to Gazans what Hamas did to Jewish civilians and children, the whole world would bomb Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Jayapal responded, “I don’t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions.”
After significant pressure from Israel and Jewish women’s groups, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced, two months after the atrocities, that the UN was opening an investigation into Hamas sexual crimes during the October 7th massacre.
He said, “Gender-based violence must be condemned. Anytime. Anywhere.”
The UN Secretary was criticized by Israel for saying just days after the October 7th massacre that Hamas atrocities “did not happen in a vacuum.”
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