The Dinah Project says the report is based on a review of evidence including first-hand testimony from a survivor of an attempted rape and 15 former hostages held in Gaza, as well as accounts from witnesses to sexual assaults.
It lays out what the group describes as “a legal blueprint for prosecuting these crimes, even when direct attribution to individual perpetrators is impossible”.
Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violence against women or mistreated female hostages.
However, a UN mission concluded in March 2024 that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attack in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape, and that there was “convincing information” that hostages had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexualised torture.
If only Israel had spent all these years empowering the people asking for coexistence rather than helping Hamas seem like the Palestinian’s only option. Maybe then they could’ve prevented October 7th and saved their own people over the glory of an ethnostate.
Hamas is a monster fed by genocidal Zionists to create the pretense for ethnic cleansing. No identity or nationality will ever be immune to fascism, and I only hope most Israelis in the future will admit that’s what Zionism ultimately was. Then again, given the amount of Americans who don’t admit that our country was built on genocide, I’m far from hopeful.