The rapes in Gaza are the Middle Eastern outrage no one is talking about.
Photos of hostages at the site of the Nova festival, where people were killed and kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas gunmen, in Reim, southern Israel. You should watch it and speak out, about how rape and gender violence were deployed as weapons of war. About breasts cut from bodies. About nails driven into a woman’s vagina.
None of this is to diminish the terrible damage inflicted on the civilian population in Gaza, the loss of life, the trauma, the hunger approaching famine proportions. But the violence described in Sandberg’s documentary, directed by Israeli filmmaker Anat Stalinsky, occupies a different plane of calculated cruelty — indeed, of evil.The world that assails Israel for its conduct of the war in Gaza should be speaking out about Hamas’s concerted assault on women.
— Raz Cohen, another survivor of the music festival, on watching a pickup truck arrive at the site. “Some terrorists got out and grabbed a girl there,” he recalled. “There was kind of a semicircle around her, and one of them raped her. I remember that her pants were halfway on, and he was behind her … and when I looked again she was already dead, and he was still at it. He was still raping her after he had slaughtered her.”— Rami Davidian, a first responder.
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