This story might give you the urge to look out your window to see if winged pigs are flying around outside. The United Nations has finally acknowledged that Hamas terrorists raped and sexually abused Israeli women during and after its October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
When reports first surfaced detailing numerous examples of sexual abuse against female hostages, the United Nations shied away from chiming in on the matter altogether. Its leaders attempted to ignore the revelations, instead choosing to focus on castigating Israel’s government for its effort to eliminate the Hamas threat in Gaza.
But now, after a lengthy investigation, the international entity has decided to stop pretending these atrocities were not committed. The United Nations Secretary General’s special envoy compiled a report after the investigation detailing what it found after visiting the region and the areas where the sexual assaults occurred. Members of the team interviewed survivors, family members, Israeli government officials, and others to gather information on the matter.
The report acknowledges that during the October 7 massacre, “people were shot, often at close range; burnt alive in their homes as they tried to hide in their safe rooms; gunned down or killed by grenades in bomb shelters where they sought refuge.”
The document notes that “Other violations included sexual violence, abduction of hostages and corpses, the public display of captives, both dead and alive, the mutilation of corpses, including decapitation, and the looting and destruction of civilian property.”
The authors go on to admit that “reasonable grounds” exist suggesting that sexual violence did occur on that day.
Based on the information gathered by the mission team from multiple and independent sources, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks in multiple locations across Gaza periphery, including rape and gang rape, in at least three locations. Across the various locations of the 7 October attacks, the mission team found that several fully naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down were recovered – mostly women – with hands tied and shot multiple times, often in the head. Although circumstantial, such a pattern of undressing and restraining of victims may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence.
At the Nova music festival and its surroundings, there are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of sexual violence took place with victims being subjected to rape and/or gang rape and then killed or killed while being raped. Credible sources described finding murdered individuals, mostly women, whose bodies were naked from their waist down – and some totally naked – tied with their hands behind their backs, many of whom were shot in the head. On Road 232, credible information based on witness accounts describe an incident of the rape of two women by armed elements. Other reported instances of rape could not be verified in the time allotted. The mission team also found a pattern of bound naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down, in some cases tied to structures including trees and poles, along Road 232. In kibbutz Re’im, the mission team further verified an incident of the rape of a woman outside of a bomb shelter and heard of other allegations of rape that could not yet be verified.
The fact that the U.N. was hesitant to acknowledge sexual assault perpetrated against Israelis is not surprising given the organization’s history of brazen bias against the Jewish State. Indeed, the only shocking development is the fact that they even investigated it in the first place given how its officials have behaved ever since Israel began retaliating against Hamas.
The U.N. has displayed a glaring bias against Israel for decades, constantly condemning the country and passing resolutions against it while largely ignoring human rights abuses committed by Hamas and other nations' governments. It was even revealed that one of the organization’s agencies actively employed terrorists who aided in the October 7 attack against Israel.
Of course, it is also worth mentioning that the U.N.’s willingness to finally acknowledge what everyone already knew doesn’t exactly suggest that the organization is seeking to be fair. The organization’s report also suggests that it is trying to find cases in which Israelis have abused Palestinians being held prisoner. This is an obvious way to try to establish some sort of moral equivalency between the two sides that clearly does not exist.
Nevertheless, the truth is out there and the world can clearly see that Hamas must be eliminated if there is any shred of hope for peace in the region.
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