Hamas ‘raped dead bodies' & tied stripped Oct 7 hostages to trees before shooting them, harrowing new testimony reveals
A shocking new investigative report has revealed a pattern of widespread sexual atrocities conducted by the terror group on the horror day.
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Among the 1,200 innocent people slaughtered, some young women were stripped and tied to trees and poles and shot through their genitals and in the head, The Times reports.
Hamas raped and gang raped in at least six difference locations, according to the new testimony compiled in The Dinah Report.
The first-hand experience comes from 15 of the returned hostages, one survivor of attempted rape at the Nova music festival, and 17 who saw or heard the attacks.
The survivors describe scenes of "unspeakable violence" and "systematic depravity" in the new report compiled by Israeli legal and gender-based violence experts.
Some women, who were raped and mutilated, were then left for dead.
Others were targeted while lifeless.
Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas, former chief military prosecutor of the Israeli army and one of the report's lead authors, said: "Many of the witnesses spoke of the victims being shot and them still trying to rape a dead body."
The report accuses Hamas of deploying sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war, with similar methods to those used by ISIS and Boko Haram.
'Clear patterns emerged,' it reads, 'including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied… evidence of gang rapes followed by execution, and genital mutilation.'
The report details scenes at multiple attack sites — including the Nova music festival, Route 232, Nahal Oz military base, and the kibbutzim of Re'im, Nir Oz, and Kfar Aza.
Hamas hurled grenades at us like game of Russian Roulette… I heard last gasp of boyfriend as bodies piled up around me
Hamas conducted premeditated, coordinated acts of brutality, the report says.
It also draws on forensic evidence from thousands of images and hours of video.
The conclusive report comes after some have denied that Hamas would carry out sexual violence given they are Muslim.
Zagagi-Pinhas said: 'sexual violence need not mean rape — also forced nudity, forcing some of the hostages to strip and shower while being watched or trying to force them into marriage.
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'Women found dead, naked and mutilated — with gunshots in their genitalia — and tied to trees. The fact that the same things happened in three to six locations can't be coincidence but proof this was premeditated.'
The sick attack was the catalyst that plunged four nations - Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Iran - into war, killing tens of thousands and marking a historic shift in the Middle East.
On October 7, 2023, some 1,175 civilians, soldiers and foreign nationals inside Israel were savagely murdered in a hideous early-morning assault.
Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets, flying over in paragliders and bulldozing through in trucks in over 100 different places across the border.
An IDF report found that 6,000 fighters from Gaza managed to get into Israel that day - including 3,800 from the Hamas terror group's elite Nukhba forces.
Horrifying reports that followed October 7 revealed children were killed, women were raped and around 250 had been kidnapped and taken back to Gaza.
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It was described by many, including former US President Joe Biden, as "the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust".
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared "we are at war" following the ambush - and said the military would "turn Gaza into a deserted island" and urged its residents to "leave now".
The horrors of October 7 sparked the almost two-year-long conflict - still raging in the Middle East as the IDF attempts to obliterate Hamas.
Netanyahu has rejected calls - including from his own government - for an investigation into the security failings that led to October 7 - saying he wants to win the war first.
An investigation by the New York Times revealed that documents, emails and interviews show Israel was aware of Hamas' plan for October 7 over a year before it happened.
Military and intelligence top brass dismissed the plans as aspirational, believing it was too hard for Hamas to carry out.
The newspaper saw a 40-page document which outlined a step-by-step plan of the kind of invasion that would later kill more than 1,000 people.
Israel's domestic intelligence unit Shin Bet reportedly discussed a possible threat to the Nova festival hours before Hamas hit on October 7 - but festival officials were not warned, Haaretz reports.
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