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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTheir bodies tell their stories. They're not alive to speak for themselves.
In one photo, a burned body appears to project anguish. In another, a woman lies naked from the waist down, her underwear hanging from her leg. In interviews, first responders haltingly describe finding naked female corpses tied to beds and survivors recount witnessing a gang rape at the music festival.
All of this is part of a mounting body of evidence of the gender-based crimes carried out by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.
Over the last several weeks, NBC News has reviewed five interrogations of captured Hamas fighters, an Arabic-language document that instructed Hamas how to pronounce Take off your pants in Hebrew, six images of naked or partially naked deceased female bodies, seven eyewitness accounts of sexual violence including both rape and mutilation, 11 testimonies of first responders, and two accounts from workers in morgues who handled the bodies of women after they were recovered from the massacre.
The evidence, primarily from the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli officials, suggests that dozens of Israeli women were raped or sexually abused or mutilated during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. According to first responders, one was mutilated with a pair of scissors and another stabbed with a knife. The genitals of some men who had been killed were mutilated as well.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/their-bodies-tell-their-stories-they-re-not-alive-to-speak-for-themselves/ar-AA1l3CU7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ENTPHB&cvid=9fe246d5abc84457aa86b5e660d85b74&ei=12
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(69,466 posts)irisblue
(37,639 posts)Elessar Zappa
(16,385 posts)These terrorists are animals. No, I take that back, animals dont do that shit. This is a uniquely human pathology.
JustAnotherGen
(38,079 posts)Behind the Aegis
(56,124 posts)disgusting.
That is all.
Sugarcoated
(8,240 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)If I start raging and crying at this point I may never stop.
Cha
(319,539 posts)and what makes it even worse if possible is the Denial that this ever happened and those who can't even Condemn HAMAS.
Link to tweet
SunSeeker
(58,335 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 6, 2023, 03:53 AM - Edit history (1)
Only ONE side was doing this abomination: HAMAS.
Cha
(319,539 posts)And, I just kicked 2 threads that were posted on Sunday about it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18498971
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218499243
question everything
(52,206 posts)ancianita
(43,312 posts)Article 27 of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. Rape is one of the 11 defined crimes against humanity, a global standard set forth in the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
SunSeeker
(58,335 posts)Tansy_Gold
(18,167 posts)and the women and the girls and the babies and the old people are the casualties on all sides.
There is neither strategic nor tactical purpose in rape. It is an act of power and anger and hatred.
question everything
(52,206 posts)Videos were created, posted on the womens Facebook, emailed to their families.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218476941
I put a trigger warning but it was in the paragraphs that I snipped so why wont you read it and then tell us about how men rape in wars as a casual happening.