Amit Soussana is the first former hostage to publicly say she was sexually abused in captivity. A U.N. report has said it found “clear and convincing information” that some hostages suffered “conflict-related sexual violence.”

Ms. Soussana, 40, is the first Israeli to speak publicly about being sexually assaulted during captivity after the Hamas-led raid on southern Israel. In her interviews with The Times, conducted mostly in English, she provided extensive details of sexual and other violence she suffered during a 55-day ordeal.

Ms. Soussana’s personal account of her experience in captivity is consistent with what she told two doctors and a social worker less than 24 hours after she was freed on Nov. 30. Their reports about her account state the nature of the sexual act; The Times agreed not to disclose the specifics.

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For months, Hamas and its supporters have denied that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. This month, a United Nations report said that there was “clear and convincing information” that some hostages had suffered sexual violence and there were “reasonable grounds” to believe sexual violence occurred during the raid, while acknowledging the “challenges and limitations” of examining the issue.

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  • sailingbythelee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    930·
    9 months ago

    Cutting off aid to Gaza in order to starve out the militants hiding in the civilian population is at least a plausible justification. Again, we can debate whether Israel has taken it too far, but using siege tactics doesn’t make someone a Nazi. Nice try.

    But what is your justification for raping people?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      168·
      9 months ago

      Uh… What Israel is doing is 100%, undebatable a war crime. As occupiers they have a responsibility under international law to provide food and other life necessities to the people of Gaza. That doesn’t change with the addition of an insurgency.

      • sailingbythelee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        816·
        9 months ago

        Whatever. The point of the article is that Hamas committed many acts of rape and torture on Oct 7. You guys don’t like that narrative so you are trying to draw me off topic by focusing on Israel’s crimes and making a false equivalence between overzealous military tactics and rape-happy terrorists. These are the kind of people that Hamas recruits. Think about it. Hamas is the enemy of civilization, not your friendly neighbourhood Starbucks revolutionary.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          96·
          9 months ago

          The point of the article is that Hamas committed many acts of rape and torture on Oct 7. You guys don’t like that narrative so you are trying to draw me off topic by focusing on Israel’s crimes and making a false equivalence between overzealous military tactics and rape-happy terrorists.

          I won’t engage with you anymore, but at least Hamas has the basic decency to not shoot children. Israel sure as hell doesn’t.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          64·
          9 months ago

          Whatever. The point of the article argument I’m ignoring is that Hamas Israel committed many acts of rape and torture on genocide since Oct 7. You guys don’t like that narrative so you are trying to draw me off topic by focusing on Israel’s crimes a single instance of rape and making a false equivalence between overzealous genocidal military tactics and alleged rape-happy terrorists (with plenty of refuted accusations). These are the kind of people that Hamas Israel recruits. Think about it. Hamas Israel is the enemy of civilization, not your friendly neighbourhood Starbucks revolutionary

          Fixed your bad argument for you.

    • mute@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      218·
      9 months ago

      By your twisted and fucked up logic, raping people is a justifiable military operation: you rape enough people some of them ought to be military personnel and it causes irreparable harm that may dissuade them to continue fighting.

      Rape, civilian casualties, killing children….all of them are unacceptable. Now fuck off you nazi piece of shit.