Israeli experts used sexual abuse within the “genocidal strategy”

Hamas used sexual violence as a “part of a targeted genocidal strategy” during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, in a new report that called for justice calling for justice.

The Dinah project states that the report is based on evidence review, including first-hand testimony due to survival rape and 15 former hostages conducted in gas, as well as witnesses’ accounts.

He teaches what the group characterizes as “a legal basis for the persecution of these crimes, even if it is impossible to directly attribute individual criminals.”

Hamas denied his strength, which committed sexual abuse of women or harshly treated women’s hostages.

However, In March 2024, the UN mission ended that “reasonable grounds” believe that as a result of the attack on October 7, on October 7, a few places in several places occurred in several placesIncluding the rape and rape of the gang, and that there was “convincing information” that the hostages were sexual abuse, including rape and sexual torture.

And before they were killed by Israel, Hamas’s three major leaders were also accused by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court of Crimes against Human Rape and other forms of sexual abuseIn addition to murder, extermination and torture.

On October 7, hundreds of Hamas members and the Palestinian Armed Forces attacked Southern Israel, where they killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

Israel replied by launching a military campaign in Gaza, which killed more than 57,500 people, the Ministry of Health reports.

Warning: contains graphic descriptions of rape and sexual abuse

The Dinah project was launched after October 7 to reach justice for sexual violence victims. It was founded by a legal scientist Ruth Halperin-Caddar, lawyer and former Military Prosecutor Sharon Pinhas, as well as former judge and Deputy Prosecutor General Nava-Ar.

It says about it In a report that was published on Tuesday“It establishes that Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon within the genocidal scheme and for terrorization and degumanization of Israeli society.”

He also “creates a way to justice for the victims of the October 7 attack and potentially for victims in other conflicts,” the group reports.

The authors say they have considered a large amount of sources, ranging from social media reports to recorded testimony, as well as forensic evidence and visual and audio.

The report – which does not determine the victims but quotes reports, which call some of them – said that on October 7, which survived the attack on the Nova Music festival, the Dinah project members were attempted to rape and sexual attack.

According to the report, one of the 15 former hostages stated that it was forced to perform a sexual act that preceded sexual abuse and oral and physical sexual harassment. She also said she had experienced a forced nakedness – the experience, which was reported by six other hostages.

Almost all hostages reported on oral and some physical persecution, including “unwanted physical contact in private parts,” the report said, and six said they also had threats to marriage.

Two men among the hostages said they were forced nakedness and physical cruelty when naked, and one also tells about shaving all the hair of his body, the report said.

The Dinah project states that the accounts of people who have seen or heard sexual abuse showed that on October 7, such crimes were “widespread and systematic”.

According to the report, five witnesses reported at least four individual cases of rape of the gang; Seven reported at least eight other individual cases of rape or serious sexual attacks, some of them in captivity; Five reported at least three individual cases of sexual attacks, some in captivity; And three reported three separate cases of injury.

Nine of these cases related to the Nova Music Festival, two to the Nahal Oz military base, one on the 232 route road, and the four -in -shaped incidents, said in the statement.

Meanwhile, the twenty -seven first respondents described dozens of cases that showed “clear signs of sexual abuse in six places,” the Nova Festival, Route 232, and Ber, Alumim, and Rayim said.

The report also states that “most victims were constantly kept” because they were either killed on October 7 or left too injured for conversation.

In response, the authors provide the fact that they describe as “the first global legal basis, which explains how to pursue sexual violence as weapons of war – even if the evidence of the dirty, and some criminals cannot be associated with individual actions.”

This includes a basic check for the classification of information based on its proximity to the incidents and its evidence, as well as the legal framework for criminal liability for atrocities committed during mass attacks, even if a person personally did not commit each act or does not know about his commission by someone else.

The report concludes that justice is “necessary not only for individual victims, but also to confirm the broader principles: that sexual violence in conflicts is a serious violation of international law, that criminals will be prosecuted and that the international community will not allow such crimes to be impunity.”