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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/hamas-rape-un-report-hostages/
UN Finds Israeli Hostages Were Raped, Tortured in Hamas Attack
(Washington Post) Karen DeYoung - A team of UN experts found "reasonable grounds to believe" that some victims of Hamas' attacks in Israel on Oct. 7 were sexually assaulted, according to a report released Monday. "In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed," the report said. "The mission team also found a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound, and shot across multiple locations." 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 that this violence may be ongoing."