New York Times Reveals Horrific New Evidence of Hamas’ Systematic Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

Warning: This story contains graphic details about sexual violence, including rape and torture, carried out during Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel.

A major investigation has revealed harrowing new details about the systematic use of sexual violence and torture against dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers by Hamas terrorists on the morning of Oct. 7.

The New York Times report, which took over two months to compile, relies on video footage, photographs, GPS data, and interviews with more than 150 people including soldiers, witnesses, survivors, and volunteer medics. It documents instances of gang rape, genital mutilation, and other brutal abuses of women and young girls.

Israeli soldiers and medics found over 30 bodies of women and girls near the site of the Supernova music festival massacre who had signs of abuse in their genital areas, according to the investigation.

The Times said it had identified at least seven locations where women and children appear to have been sexually tortured, including multiple kibbutzim such as Kfar Aza and Be’eri.

Times‘ reporters viewed images showing a woman with nails drilled into her thighs and groin areas and of female soldiers at an overrun military base who appeared to have been shot in their vaginas.

Two therapists who spoke with the Times said a woman who survived the music festival massacre — in which over 300 people were murdered and dozens taken hostage — had been gang raped by Hamas terrorists and is currently incapable of speaking about the instance with reporters or investigators.

The piece includes a quote from Mirit Ben Mayor, a police chief superintendent, who said that the Hamas terrorists were motivated by a combination of two hatreds: “the hatred for Jews and the hatred for women.”

The report is one of the most detailed English-language accounts of what Israeli officials have been saying for months: that instances of sexual violence on Oct. 7 were widespread. Since then, Israeli investigators have been slowly compiling evidence of sexual atrocities in preparation for possible war crimes prosecution.

Since the documented sexual violence on Oct. 7, much of the world’s reaction has been muted, particularly from international women’s groups and the United Nations.

United Nations Women — the UN agency for gender equality and women’s empowerment — released on Nov. 25 its first statement about the gender-based violence carried out on Oct. 7 — 50 days after the onslaught took place. A week later, on Dec. 1, the agency condemned for the first time ever the Hamas attacks, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,200 people, mostly civilians, across southern Israel and abducted 200 others as hostages to Gaza.

There have been calls to have UN Women disbanded for waiting so long to comment on the sexual violence, and earlier this month, Israeli actress Gal Gadot slammed the international community for staying quiet about the sexual abuse women experienced at the hands of Hamas.

Accounts of sexual violence against Israelis are not limited to Oct. 7.

Two Israeli doctors who treated freed hostages, as well as an Israeli military official familiar with the matter, confirmed to American newspaper USA Today that some released women revealed that they had suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity. All three spoke on condition of anonymity.

One of the doctors said that among those aged 12 to 48, many of the 30 suffered sexual assault during their captivity at the hands of Hamas in Gaza.

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