SAO PAULO, Brazil — As a bloodied young woman with bound hands was forced down the sidewalk by a masked man in black, time seemed to stand still for passersby on the bustling, upscale Oscar Freire street in São Paulo…. Patrons at elegant eateries were jolted from their leisurely conversations and shocked onlookers toting shopping bags stopped to whisper in disbelief as they struggled to comprehend what they were seeing.

And that’s exactly what the man in black wanted — and his captive, too. The pair were actors reproducing the real-life abduction of 19-year-old Naama Levy by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 onslaught in which 1,200 people in southern Israel were murdered, most of them civilians, and another 253 were abducted to the Gaza Strip.

The massacre was stunning in its brutality, with entire families killed, many of them burned alive in their homes, amid rampant acts of torture, mutilation and rape. Levy, who to all appearances was sexually assaulted by Hamas on October 7, was kidnapped by the terrorists while sheltering in her home’s safe room in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
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The provocative demonstration was planned and executed by the Female Empowerment and Leadership Group (EIF), a branch of São Paulo’s Jewish Federation (Fisesp). It aimed to raise awareness among women’s rights organizations, including UN Women and the MeToo movement, about the plight of Israeli women subjected to abuse, rape and mutilation at the hands of Hamas terrorists on and after October 7.