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By Justin Porter
A two-month investigation by the New York Times has revealed painful new details about a series of rapes, mutilations and excessive brutality committed against Israeli women that Hamas targeted in early October. Sexual assaults against women are not isolated events, but they are part of a broader trend of gender-based violence.
Based on video footage, photographs, GPS data from phones and interviews with more than 150 people, including witnesses, medical personnel, soldiers and rape counselors, the Times learned of at least seven places where Israeli women and women gave the impression of having sex. assaulted or mutilated.
Witnesses described finding more than 30 bodies of women and women in and around the rave and on two kibbutzim, left with their legs spread, their clothes torn off and symptoms of abuse on their genitals. Hamas has denied allegations that such acts took place.
Civilian deaths:
The Israeli military, in a rare admission of fault, acknowledged that it had carried out two airstrikes on Dec. 24 which Gazan health officials said killed dozens of civilians in the neighborhood of Al Maghazi. An unidentified military official told Israel’s public broadcaster that an improper choice of weaponry was to blame for the high civilian death toll.
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