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Beastly Boy

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Sun Jul 6, 2025, 06:20 AM Jul 2025

UK-funded report on Oct. 7 sexual violence to be published Tuesday, British paper says [View all]

A report documenting “widespread and systematic” sexual violence during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, as well as assaults experienced by hostages held in Gaza, is set to be released Tuesday in Jerusalem, the British Sunday Times reports.

The Dinah Report, partly funded by the British government and written by Israeli gender and legal experts, aims “to counter denial, misinformation and global silence” over the massacre, and seeks “to set the historical record straight: Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war.”

The report compiles testimonies from 15 former hostages, a survivor of an attempted rape at the Supernova Music Festival, and to 17 people who witnessed or heard assaults, which took place across six locations, according to the Sunday Times.

“Clear patterns emerged in how the sexual violence was perpetrated,” the Sunday Times quotes the report as saying, “including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; and genital mutilation.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/uk-funded-report-on-oct-7-sexual-violence-to-be-published-tuesday-british-paper-says/
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It still doesn't justify deliberately bombing hospitals and killing children Chasstev365 Jul 2025 #1
Nor does it justify a deflection from the report. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #2
"Quick, look over here!" didn't take very long, did it? lapucelle Jul 2025 #3
Like clockwork. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #4
I can easily predict that the following things will be said. yardwork Jul 2025 #6
Just "freedom fighting" mcar Jul 2025 #9
Listen to yourself. yardwork Jul 2025 #5
It's been an inevitable response Mossfern Jul 2025 #7
Netanyahu's reactions were predictable and the goal of the Oct 7 atrocities. yardwork Jul 2025 #10
That is a very interesting take! Mossfern Jul 2025 #13
It is a business deal. yardwork Jul 2025 #14
Bildeberg conspiracy? Mossfern Jul 2025 #15
Sometimes comparisons to past events muddy the waters. yardwork Jul 2025 #16
Absolutely Mossfern Jul 2025 #17
That's it. yardwork Jul 2025 #18
We're not allowed to say that! AloeVera Jul 2025 #12
You say it all the time. yardwork Jul 2025 #19
It is a majority now, perhaps. But for well over a year I was excoriated and "shamed" for my views by a majority. AloeVera Jul 2025 #20
That wasn't my observation. yardwork Jul 2025 #21
We must live on different planets then. AloeVera Jul 2025 #23
And I see some here will never accept that horrible reality mcar Jul 2025 #8
They started with that point of view. yardwork Jul 2025 #11
Remember Hillary was attacked for bringing this up JI7 Jul 2025 #22
Rape bad. Murder bad. Iggo Jul 2025 #24
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