Oct 7th rape crimes
Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city’s streets, blood gushing from between their legs. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Eye-witness account of the rave massacre. “Women have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.”. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account
Sexual Violence Occurred in Israel During 7 October Attacks, Senior UN Official Tells Security Council. https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15621.doc.htm
Hamas Raped ‘Women, Grandmothers, Children’ So Violently ‘They Broke Victims’ Pelvis’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-official-hamas-raped-women-grandmothers-children-so-violently-they-broke-victims-pelvis
New York Times reporters identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/asia/rape-hamas-israel-investigation-asia.html
Award winning journalist Christina Lamb, “I interviewed one male eyewitness…this one woman who he said…haunts his dreams, that he watched being beaten and raped, gang raped by 8 to 10 men. And then they killed her.” https://youtu.be/Ua12DGUBTcw?si=aXPxfji2jS07sRKr
Hamas gang raped and beheaded women at rave massacre, fresh testimony reveals https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/hamas-gang-raped-and-beheaded-women-at-rave-massacre-fresh-testimony-reveals-blp0ghdl
Shocking cases of rape-murders. Woman assaulted with metal object and killed, breasts cut off. https://fb.watch/oVNhqBKAum/?mibextid=Nif5oz
First responder Zagagi-Pinhas added. “Women found dead, naked and mutilated — with gunshots in their genitalia — and tied to trees.”
“Many of the witnesses we spoke to talk of the victims being shot and them still trying to rape a dead body,” https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/07/06/15-hostages-break-silence-on-horrific-sexual-violence-in-gaza-captivity/
Eye-witness accounts of rape
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/vA2BUuZHdBDAJrGm/?mibextid=NnVzG8
First responder witnessed women raped and killed including with one who had nails in her private parts. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/yh3tJu7eVpCZTTrK/?mibextid=SphRi8
Comprehensive report on violence against women on Oct 7th sent to UN by Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centers (ARCCI), https://allisrael.com/report-detailing-strategy-of-sexual-violence-used-by-hamas-on-october-7-sent-to-un
“It was often impossible for families to be shown faces – and it seems as if mutilation of these women’s faces was an objective in their murders.”.
“The soldiers that we dealt with had expressions of agony on their faces still,” said Mendes. “I remember one young woman whose arm was broken in so many places it was difficult for us to lay her arm in the burial shroud, her leg too. In her case, the entire left side of her body was shredded, torn apart, most likely by a grenade.” https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776654
Attackers laughed as they raped and murdered a woman in Israel on October 7, witness says. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/04/middleeast/sexual-assault-october-7-israel-witness-int/index.html
Another, Nachman Dyksztejna, provided written testimony of seeing the bodies of two women in kibbutz Be’eri with their hands and legs tied to a bed. “One was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed,” his statement says. At the festival site, he says small shelters were “filled with piles of women. Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked. Piles and piles of women. […] When you took a closer look at their heads, you saw a single shot straight to the brain of each.”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67629181
“My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her.”. https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/05/23/like-father-like-son-hamas-terrorists-confess-to-rape-and-murder-of-civilians/
U.N. finds ‘clear and convincing’ information that hostages have been raped in Gaza. https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/un-finds-clear-convincing-information-hostages-raped-gaza-rcna141789
Screams before Silence. Documentary of the rapes from Oct 7th. https://youtu.be/zAr9oGSXgak?si=hm-2dRG_srTRdCUE
Israel’s police chief presented to the international news media videotaped testimony of a rape witness at the music festival. Her face blurred, she said she watched militants gang-rape a woman as she lay on the ground. The men then stood her up as blood trickled from her back, yanked her hair and sliced her breast, playing with it as they assaulted her. The last man shot her in the head while he was still inside her. https://apnews.com/article/sexual-assault-hamas-oct-7-attack-rape-bb06b950bb6794affb8d468cd283bc51
Reasonable Grounds to Believe Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Occurred in Israel During 7 October Attacks, Senior UN Official Tells Security Council. https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15621.doc.htm
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Sapir, a 26-year-old accountant, has become one of the Israeli police’s key witnesses
The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back.
She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast.
“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said.
She said the men sliced her face and then the woman fell out of view. Around the same time, she said, she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html
