A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday.

“In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed,” a press release announcing the report’s findings said. “The mission team also found a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound, and shot across multiple locations.”

The 23-page report said the team also found “clear and convincing information” that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to “rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” There were “reasonable grounds to believe,” it said, “that this violence may be ongoing.”

  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    Sorry but I’m not the one you’ve meant to reply to. I just added a comment and have no such views you present

    The situation is definitely asymmetrical and qualifies as a genocide. That’s not even something to be unsure of

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      8 months ago

      No. I meant reply to you. I asked a question (about Israeli citizens outside of Oct 7), you responded with something interpreted as “both sides.”

      Of course, all life is important. At the moment, and the past five months, it’s been entirely one-sided.

      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        No. The information I added wasn’t to be interpreted in any such way, it was not charged with “both sides” or even sympathies towards fascist Israel, but thank you for elaborating on your process.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          8 months ago

          I think his point is that only one side is currently actively being slaughtered. Which makes the sympathy for both sides right now rather pointless.

          • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            8 months ago

            Yes. Maybe they just hopped too quickly to conclusions that sympathies were the topic