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Hamas ‘deliberately shot women in their genitals’ during massacre. Protesters rail against ‘silence’ of the United Nations in the face of evidence of ***ual violence committed by terrorist group.
Hamas deliberately shot women in their genitals, the United Nations has heard, amid rising anger at the silence around ***ual violence during the Oct 7 massacre.
Shari Mendes, a member of the Israeli military unit who prepared the bodies of female soldiers for burial, said her team had seen comrades “who were shot in the crotch, intimate parts, vagina, or were shot in the breast”. Another speaker, Simcha Greinman, said one woman’s body had “nails and different objects in her female organs”. Around 800 protesters who accuse the UN of double standards when it comes to ***ual violence rallied outside the body’s New York headquarters as the testimony was heard. Some chanted: “Me too, unless you’re a Jew.” A reference to the feminist movement against ***ual harassment and abuse of women. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Meta chief operating officer, who helped to organise the event, accused the UN of ignoring the rape and mutilation of women on Oct 7. “Silence is complicity,” she said.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said on Tuesday that he had heard stories of ***ual abuse at a meeting with hostages returned by Hamas during a recent pause in the fighting in Gaza. “I heard, and you also heard, about ***ual abuse and incidents of brutal rape like nothing else,” he told a news conference. Joe Biden also condemned ***ual violence by “Hamas terrorists”. “The world can’t just look away at what’s going on. It’s on all of us... to forcibly condemn the ***ual violence of Hamas terrorists without equivocation,” Mr Biden said at a campaign event in Boston. It came after the US said the hostage release deal had broken down because Hamas was reluctant to allow captured women to speak about the ***ual violence they had endured. Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the US Department of State, said: “It seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over they’ve been holding hostage and the reason this pause fell apart is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”
All those misogynists who want to excuse it, or even deny it happened, please carry on.