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The Truth about Hamas
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Reading "Silenced No More," the new report by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, we were transported back to Oct. 2023, and a screening of the raw footage of Hamas's atrocities. The new report is a catalogue of Hamas depravity. Testimony from site after site attests to rape and assault. Screams and pleas. Gunshots to the face and genitals. Mutilation. Burning. Bodies naked, legs spread. Grotesque scenes staged. All forming an evidentiary record, the result of more than 10,000 photos and video segments and more than 430 interviews, testimonies and meetings with survivors, witnesses and experts. We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors. All the more so because the sexual violence by Hamas has been aggressively denied. Denial serves to distort Israel's defensive war as if it were wanton violence. Such deniers prefer anything to reminding the world why Israel has no choice but to fight for its life.