Gut-Wrenching New York Times Report Details Widespread Sexual Atrocities on October 7: ‘I Still Remember Her Voice, Screams Without Words’

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A gut-wrenching New York Times report published after two months of investigation documents in excruciating detail the horrifying, widespread sexual atrocities committed by Hamas over the course of its October 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

From the report:

A two-month investigation by The Times uncovered painful new details, establishing that the attacks against women were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7.

Relying on video footage, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones and interviews with more than 150 people, including witnesses, medical personnel, soldiers and rape counselors, The Times identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated.

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A combination of chaos, enormous grief and Jewish religious duties meant that many bodies were buried as quickly as possible. Most were never examined, and in some cases, like at the rave scene, where more than 360 people were slaughtered in a few hours, the bodies were hauled away by the truckload.

That has left the Israeli authorities at a loss to fully explain to families what happened to their loved ones in their final moments. Ms. Abdush’s relatives, for instance, never received a death certificate. They are still searching for answers.

The article goes on to present evidence of a number of unthinkable war crimes.

One victim was hiding in the brush on October 7 when she saw one terrorist rape and stab a female captive in the back every time she flinched while another cut off her breast.

“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” she recalled.

Another witness described watching five men take turns raping a young, naked woman.

“They start raping her. I saw the men standing in a half circle around her. One penetrates her. She screams. I still remember her voice, screams without words,” he remembered.

One paramedic said that he found two teenage sisters,  13 and 16-years-old, with there pants and underwear pulled down and ripped with semen on them.

Other first responders said they found women naked with hands tied behind their back or with the vaginas “sliced open.”

In the days after October 7, doubt was cast upon the allegations of sexual atrocities by many. The Los Angeles Times removed a reference to Hamas’ sexual crimes from an October 9 column and affixed an editor’s note to it that has remained up even as the evidence continues to pour in.

“We do not have any additional comment beyond what’s included in the correction note,” Vice President of Communications Hillary Manning told Mediaite in mid-October, insisting that its note reflected “what had been substantiated at that point in time.”

The Rising‘s Briahna Joy Gray, meanwhile, mocked eyewitnesses to the atrocities.

“Zionists are asking that we believe the uncorroborated eyewitness account of *men* who describe alleged rape victims in odd, fetishistic terms,” she wrote on X in early December. “Shame on Israel for not seriously investigating claims of rape and collecting rape kits.”