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Reading Silenced No More, the new report by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, we were transported back to Oct. 27, 2023, and a screening of the raw footage of Hamass atrocities. The mouths of journalists were agape, but time dulls horrific reality.
The new report is a catalogue, for memorys sake, of Hamas depravity. Testimony from site after site attests to rape and assault. Screams and pleas. Gunshots to the face and genitals. Mutilation. Burning. Bodies naked, legs spread. Grotesque scenes staged. All forming an evidentiary record, the result of more than 10,000 photos and video segments and more than 430 interviews, testimonies and meetings with survivors, witnesses and experts.
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A male says he was gang-raped at the Nova site, providing medical records and a detailed account: They laughed, they were really pleased, as if I was their sex doll. The Hamas invaders had been given operational materials including Arabic-to-Hebrew phrase lists such as take off your pants/take your clothes off, lie down and spread your legs. The planned sexual degradation speaks to years of Palestinian propaganda that treats Jews as sub-human.
Sexual abuse continued for hostages, who are on video being groped and humiliated during abductions. In one video, a female hostage begs for her life while the narrator says, This is one of the Jewish dogs.
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We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors. All the more so because the sexual violence by Hamas has been aggressively denied by an antisemitic global left that wants us to forget. Everywhere denial serves the same purpose: to distort Israels defensive war as if it were wanton violence. Such deniers prefer anything to reminding the world why Israel has no choice but to fight for its life.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-sexual-violence-report-civil-commission-october-7-israel-2e68d781?st=SMjMWv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The report Silence No Moe
https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_882e9391df384e169d29f16c0faefeac.pdf
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(56,199 posts)mopinko
(73,887 posts)was a calculated attempt to both sides this report.
i honestly dont know who/what to believe any more, but his piece doesnt hold water, imo. mostly hamas sources. full of the same old libels.