New report: Hamas makes use of sexualized violence as a “tactical war weapon” | EUROtoday

According to a brand new report, Hamas used sexualized violence on October 7, 2023 as a “tactical weapon of war” throughout its terrorist assault on Israel. The report of the Dinah undertaking, a gaggle of Israeli authorized and gender consultants, is predicated, amongst different issues, on the statements of survivors of the bloodbath and hostage within the Gaza Strip in addition to the outcomes of research of corpses.

In the course of the analysis, in keeping with the report, there have been clear patterns in the way in which sexual violence was dedicated: victims have been discovered partially or utterly bare with tied palms on bushes or masts. There are additionally indications of group rapes with subsequent execution in addition to genital mutilation and public humiliation, it stated.

A report by the Israeli affiliation of disaster facilities for victims of rape (ARCCI) already addressed the extent of sexual violence through the bloodbath on October 7, 2023 virtually a 12 months and a half in the past. Hamas had at all times denied reviews on systematic sexualized violence.

Former hostages report sexual assault

Free feminine hostages reported, for instance, of sexual assault, bodily and verbal sexual harassment, pressured nudity and the specter of pressured marriages. 15 former hostages advised the Dinah undertaking crew about their experiences in hostage.

Ilana Gritzewsky, who was launched after 55 days of hostage, advised the report of the report: “I remember hands that touched me who were not mine. I remember screaming, then darkness.” She then awakened and located that she was half -naked and surrounded by males. “They beat me, they touched me.”

The report recommends treating battle -related sexual violence in another way than typical sexual crimes. According to the report, most victims have been “permanently silent”: they have been both killed or too traumatized throughout or after the assaults to talk. This is challenges for the proof within the prison prosecution of the perpetrators.