Kamala Harris: Hamas committed horrific acts of sexual violence on Oct. 7
www.haaretz.com
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U.S. Vice President’s remarks come amid allegations from Israel’s critics that claims of sexual and gender-based violence were either fabricated or exaggerated in order to provide justification for its military response in Gaza

Speaking at an event dedicated to raising awareness on conflict-related sexual violence, including the airing of Sheryl Sandberg’s “Screams Before Silence” documentary, “On October 7, Hamas committed horrific acts of sexual violence,” Harris said.

Her remarks come amid steady criticism from Israel’s critics on the left that claims of sexual and gender-based violence were either fabricated or exaggerated in order to provide justification for its military response in Gaza following October 7.

“In the days after October 7, I saw images of bloodied Israeli women abducted,” she continued. “Hamas committed rape and gang rape at the Nova music festival, and women’s bodies were found naked from the waist down, hands tied behind their back and shot in the head.”

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    303·
    5 months ago

    UN report about sexual violence on October 7th, Haaretz isn’t exactly the best source to use for this

    TL;DR Although it doesn’t in any way excuse the currently occurring genocide, and honestly I also wish she was as upset about 100 things from Israel’s side that we are supporting instead of 1 thing from the Palestinian side that no one is supporting, she’s not wrong.

    “War crimes are wrong no matter who does them” shouldn’t be a difficult moral dilemma

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      1021·
      5 months ago

      This is the Pramilla Patten report not the legal investigative UN report which found no evidence for these claims.

      As the Patten report claims itself to hold no legal weight it is astounding you keep linking it especially since it has since been surpassed by the investigative report.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        171·
        5 months ago

        I just looked around a little bit for some kind of indication of how the Patten report relates to the report that has the screenshots you’re sending, and I honestly couldn’t find anything.

        What report are you even linking here, that you’re calling the legal investigative UN report? I was able to find a draft version which I linked to down below, but I’m not even sure what you are referencing here, when it was created, or how it relates to the Patten report. It looks from reading the first bit, though, like it was gathered from open sources, remote interviews, and asking Israel’s government for information which obviously wasn’t very productive. I.e. a lot less thorough than what they did for the Patten report.

        Why are you saying the Patten report has been surpassed by the report you’re sending screenshots of?

        Edit: They didn’t want to answer, for obvious reasons, but someone else figured it out