“The mission team found clear and convincing information that some hostages taken to Gaza have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence and has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,” the report also said.
I’ve seen a fair number of people on Lemmy claim that Hamas didn’t rape women or even kill civilians, that’s it all lies, etc.
We just don’t have the facts, just like we don’t have the facts about claims of IDF rape. NPR did a really good article like a day or two ago about how unfortunately the evidence is gone now because they has to move so fast. And because the people doing the work aren’t trained in forensics, they were getting a bunch of false statements. There was one case where they said a woman was mutilated and raped, only to find out it was a bullet wound near the genitals.
I am going to guess there is raping happening, because that’s just what happens in the world, especially when war comes in play.