(AP) Will Weissert - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday hosted a White House event on conflict-related sexual violence. Harris said that after Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, "I saw images of bloody Israeli women abducted. Then it came to light that Hamas committed rape and gang rape at the Nova music festival. And women's bodies were found naked from the waist down, hands tied behind their back and shot in the head." Harris said she heard stories from former Israeli hostages about what they "witnessed and heard in captivity....We cannot look away. And we will not be silent." A UN report released in March found "reasonable grounds" to believe Hamas committed rape, "sexualized torture," and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its Oct. 7 attack.
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