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New Testimony Reveals Sexual Violence Was Rife on October 7


(The Times-UK) Christina Lamb - Among the 1,200 people slaughtered in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, were young women stripped and tied to trees and poles, shot through their genitals and in the head. Sexual violence was "widespread and systematic" during the attack, with rape and gang rape occurring in at least six different locations, according to a report using testimony never heard before now. Most victims were "permanently silenced," either murdered during the assaults or left too traumatized to talk. The Dinah Project's report, to be published in Jerusalem on Tuesday, is based on first-hand testimony from 15 of the returned hostages from Gaza (only one of whom has spoken previously) and a survivor of attempted rape at the Nova music festival, as well as interviews with 17 people who saw or heard the attacks and with therapists working with traumatized survivors. The aim of this report, put together by Israeli gender and legal experts and partly funded by the British government, is "to counter denial, misinformation and global silence" and "to set the historical record straight: Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war."
2025-07-08 00:00:00
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