The UN has learned that Hamas intentionally shot women in the genitalia amid growing outrage over the organization’s secrecy over sexual assault during the October 7 murder.
Member of the Israeli military squad tasked with preparing female soldiers’ dead for burial Shari Mendes reported that her team had witnessed fellow combatants “who were shot in the crotch, intimate parts, vagina, or were shot in the breast.”
Simcha Greinman, a different speaker, mentioned that a woman’s body contained “nails and different objects in her female organs.”
As the testimony was being heard, over 800 demonstrators who believe the UN has different rules when it comes to sexual assault gathered outside the organization’s New York headquarters.
“Me too, unless you’re a Jew,” some chanted. a mention of the feminist movement, which opposes women’s mistreatment and sexual harassment.
The event’s coordinator, Sheryl Sandberg, a former Meta chief operating officer, charged that the UN was overlooking the rape and disfigurement of women on October 7. She declared, “Silence is complicity.”
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, revealed on Tuesday that during a recent break in hostilities in Gaza, he had met with hostages who had been returned by Hamas and had heard accounts of sexual torture.
He said during a press conference, “I heard, and you also heard, about sexual abuse and incidents of brutal rape like nothing else.”
Joe Biden denounced sexual assault committed by “Hamas terrorists” as well.
“The world cannot ignore what is happening. At a Boston campaign event, Mr. Biden stated, “It’s on all of us… to forcefully condemn the sexual violence of Hamas terrorists without equivocation.”
It happened after the US claimed that Hamas’ refusal to let the captive women talk about the sexual abuse they had experienced was the reason the hostage release agreement had failed.
“It seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn over women they’ve been holding hostage and the reason this pause fell apart is that they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody,” stated US Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller.
As a result of the short ceasefire, 110 captives—78 of whom were Israeli women and children—of the roughly 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas or its allies were freed.
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