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William769

(59,147 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 10:24 PM Dec 2023

Their 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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Their bodies tell their stories. They're not alive to speak for themselves. (Original Post) William769 Dec 2023 OP
This was deliberate terrorism. yardwork Dec 2023 #1
gender based violence.... irisblue Dec 2023 #2
Sick. Elessar Zappa Dec 2023 #3
Fucking monsters JustAnotherGen Dec 2023 #4
So Behind the Aegis Dec 2023 #17
Why doesn't this matter? Sugarcoated Dec 2023 #5
Sick monstrosities. Oh, but they're just something something justification from the usual apologists Hekate Dec 2023 #6
There really are no words to describe ..... Cha Dec 2023 #7
OMG, did she try to "both sides" sadistic sexual torture killings? SunSeeker Dec 2023 #10
Yes she did.. and she Got Cha Dec 2023 #12
There is always "but" question everything Dec 2023 #15
Rape is a war crime. ancianita Dec 2023 #8
K & R for exposure SunSeeker Dec 2023 #9
Because it is the men who make the war Tansy_Gold Dec 2023 #11
Not here. They were brutally murdered, in some cases while being raped question everything Dec 2023 #16
I... Just have no words Ohio Joe Dec 2023 #13
Argle, bargle, both sides!!! nt LexVegas Dec 2023 #14
Horrific! brer cat Dec 2023 #18

Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts)
3. Sick.
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 10:30 PM
Dec 2023

These terrorists are animals. No, I take that back, animals don’t do that shit. This is a uniquely human pathology.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
6. Sick monstrosities. Oh, but they're just something something justification from the usual apologists
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 11:35 PM
Dec 2023

If I start raging and crying at this point I may never stop.

Cha

(319,539 posts)
7. There really are no words to describe .....
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 12:14 AM
Dec 2023

and what makes it even worse if possible is the Denial that this ever happened and those who can't even Condemn HAMAS.




SunSeeker

(58,335 posts)
10. OMG, did she try to "both sides" sadistic sexual torture killings?
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 12:30 AM
Dec 2023

Last edited Wed Dec 6, 2023, 03:53 AM - Edit history (1)

Only ONE side was doing this abomination: HAMAS.

ancianita

(43,312 posts)
8. Rape is a war crime.
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 12:22 AM
Dec 2023

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.

Tansy_Gold

(18,167 posts)
11. Because it is the men who make the war
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 12:31 AM
Dec 2023

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)
16. Not here. They were brutally murdered, in some cases while being raped
Wed Dec 6, 2023, 01:10 AM
Dec 2023

Videos were created, posted on the women’s 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 won’t you read it and then tell us about how “men rape in wars” as a casual happening.

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