Little children being strangled bare handed by Hamas/Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Women and girls being raped as an instrument of military violence.
Please remember to pray for the victims, families and survivors of the Oct. 7 genocidal attack.
Women and girls being raped as an instrument of military violence.
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The investigation identified 13 recurring forms of sexual and gender-based violence across multiple sites.
These include:Hamas and its collaborators used sexual torture to maximize pain and suffering. Victims endured brutal acts, including burning, mutilation, rape, restraining, forced insertion of objects into the genitalia, shootings to the faces and genital area, killings and abuses in front of family members, and executions. Many victims were found handcuffed, bound, or otherwise physically restrained. Extreme forms of SGBV continued against hostages in captivity for prolonged periods, inflicted on both women and men. Those who survived, and those who witnessed these crimes, suffer severe and enduring physical and psychological injuries. This kind of sexualized torture leaves a distinct and lasting imprint on society, producing a form of terror that extends far beyond the immediate victims and long after the killings themselves.
- Rape and gang rape
- Sexual torture and mutilation
- Forced nudity
- Executions linked to sexual violence
- Postmortem sexual abuse
- Sexual assaults carried out in the presence of family members
- In at least one case, family members were coerced into acts of sexual violence against one another.
A defining feature of the October 7 atrocities was the deliberate use of digital media as part of the violence itself.
- Perpetrators recorded, livestreamed, and distributed acts of abuse and torture through social media and victims' own digital accounts. In many cases, families first learned of the fate of their loved ones through images and videos sent by perpetrators.
These acts were designed not only to harm victims, but to terrorize families, communities, and society at large, transforming individual acts of violence into instruments of psychological warfare.
https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more/executive-summary
Please remember to pray for the victims, families and survivors of the Oct. 7 genocidal attack.
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