Report: Hamas sexual violence during October 7 attack was planned and terrorists were trained for it – Firstpost

The sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack was planned and the terrorists were trained to carry it out, a report says.

On October 7, 2023, around 3,000 terrorists from Hamas and allied groups such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) entered Israel and wreaked havoc in southern Israel, attacking border communities, overrunning military posts and bases, massacring people, and sexually assaulting women.

Now the Israeli non-governmental organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has determined that the numerous incidents of sexual violence, including rape, during the October 7 attacks were not isolated incidents, but were planned. According to The Jerusalem Post, the terrorists had also been trained in how to subdue and attack captured women.

The Post, which reported on PMW’s findings, reported that documents seized from Hamas terrorists and examined by the NGO showed that Hamas and allied groups had the deliberate intent to use sexual assault as a weapon in their attacks.

Hamas issued written instructions for sexual violence

The documents show that Hamas gave the terrorists written instructions in Arabic and Hebrew to help them carry out sexual assaults.

The Hebrew orders the terrorists gave their prisoners were written in Arabic script. The Post reported that Hamas gave the terrorists the following orders: “Take off your pants,” “Lie down,” “Don’t cause trouble,” “Men here,” “Women here,” “Children here,” “Raise your hands and spread your legs,” “Take off your clothes,” “I will kill you,” “We have hostages,” “We will kill the prisoners,” and “What is the name of the kibbutz?”

“In the Hamas language manual, the terms were written in Arabic and their Hebrew translation was then transliterated back into Arabic characters (see below) so that the terrorists knew how to speak and give orders to the kidnapped Israelis,” noted the Australian Jewish Association, which also shared PMW’s findings on X (formerly Twitter).

Hamas committed widespread sexual violence

Reports of sexual violence and rape were already piling up on October 7. The Supernova Music Festival in southern Israel, where terrorists killed over 300 civilians, was the scene of mass murder and rape. A survivor told Tablet magazine that women were raped amid the corpses of their friends and executed after the rapes.

“They (the Hamas terrorists) are children, but already young men, and they are holding this guy, and he looks like his girlfriend is getting on a motorcycle and driving away from him. God knows what she will experience… Women were raped on the grounds of the rave party next to the bodies of their girlfriends, next to dead bodies,” this survivor said in a story published on October 8.

The magazine further reported that “several of these rape victims were apparently later executed.”

A second survivor of the desert music festival massacre told the magazine she saw mutilated women’s bodies at the site, a recurring theme in all Hamas attacks. In an investigative report, the New York Times detailed terrorists who cut women’s faces and breasts after raping them, and bodies of women with mutilated vaginas and nails hammered into the lower half of their bodies.

The newspaper reported that soldiers and medics who responded to the attack on the desert music festival spoke of more than 30 bodies of women and girls at the festival site and in two communities near the site, showing visible signs of sexual abuse: splayed legs, torn clothing, signs of genital abuse.

The violence was not only concentrated in the festival site and its surroundings. The newspaper reported that it had found evidence of sexual violence in at least seven locations in southern Israel where terrorists were operating.

In March, the United Nations (UN) also recognized the credibility of reports of sexual assault.

“We have found clear and compelling information about sexual violence, including rape, sexual torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” said Pramila Patten, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflict.

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