Witness: Hamas terrorist cut off her breast, threw her in the street and then played with her

Israeli police have shown reporters videos taken by attendees of the Nova music festival that show the gang-rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.

The BBC claims footage of naked and bloodied women on the day of the Hamas attack and photographs of the bodies taken at the scene afterwards show the attackers sexually assaulted the women.

AFP/Scanpix/A protest against violence against women outside the United Nations headquarters in New York

The last moments of the lives of such victims are glued together like a mosaic from the stories of the survivors, the people who collected the bodies, the testimonies of the morgue workers and video footage.

The woman was gang-raped and desecrated by Hamas gunmen, and the last of the men who raped her shot her in the head during the meeting.

One of the women who attended the festival, which Hamas stormed and kidnapped or killed hundreds of people, told Israeli police she saw a woman gang-raped and defiled by Hamas gunmen, with the last of the men who raped her shooting her in the head during the gathering. . According to her, the attackers lifted the victim from the ground like a doll and handed it to each other.

“She was alive,” said the witness. “She was bleeding from behind.”

The woman went on to say in the video that they started removing the victim’s body parts one by one: “They cut off her breast and threw her in the street, then they started playing with her.”

The Minister of Women’s Integration revealed that she had the opportunity to communicate with at least three girls. According to Ms. Golan, all of them said they pretended to be dead, but they observed, heard and felt everything.

Meanwhile, another witness who attended the festival told BBC reporters that he heard “noise and screams as people were killed, raped, their heads were cut off”.

When asked how he knew that these were screams caused by sexual abuse, even though he did not see it, the man emphasized that it is difficult to mistake such screams for anything else.

“Some women were raped before they died, some were injured, and some of them after death,” he said in a speech at a support organization. “I desperately wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do.”

Israel’s Women’s Empowerment Minister, May Golan, told the BBC that several victims of rape or sexual assault had survived the attacks and that all of them were currently being treated by psychiatrists.

“But very, very little. Most were brutally killed, she noted. – They cannot talk – neither to me nor to anyone from the government [ar] media’.

However, she revealed that she had the opportunity to interact with at least three girls. According to Ms. Golan, all of them said they pretended to be dead, but they observed, heard and felt everything.

“They cannot accept that,” the minister emphasized.

Among the videos taken by Hamas are footage of one of the handcuffed female hostages with mutilated legs and blood down the back of her trousers.

In some of the videos, the women being led by the attackers appear to be either naked or half-clothed. Photos from the sites of the attacks show women naked from the waist down or with their underwear ripped off, with their legs spread, the BBC noted.

“It really looks like Hamas from ISIS.” [grupuotės „Islamo valstybė”] The cases of Iraq and Bosnia have taught us how to use women’s bodies as weapons,” Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, a legal expert at the Hebrew University’s Davis Institute of International Affairs, told reporters.

Having worked at the place where the aforementioned festival was held, the witness noted that he found the small huts-shelters there “filled with women’s bodies. The upper parts of their clothes were torn and the lower parts of their bodies were completely exposed.

“It horrifies me to know that they understood very well what to do to women: to cut their body parts, to mutilate their genitals, to rape them. It’s just horrible to know,” he added.

Unfortunately, the true extent of the abuse may never be known, as most survivors avoid sharing their memories. Some of them are currently hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals, while others, who worked with teams that care for survivors, chose suicide.

Harrowing testimonies of volunteers

It is said that much of the evidence was provided by volunteers called in after the attacks, who collected bodies at the sites of the tragedies and processed the bodies of the dead at the Shura military base, where they are being prepared for identification.

One of the volunteers of the religious organization “Zaka” shared what he had to see. According to the man, the victims included a pregnant woman whose uterus was ripped open and her fetus stabbed before being killed.

The BBC News Service says it could not independently verify the story, and Israeli media reports cast doubt on some of the testimonies of volunteers who worked in the wake of the traumatizing Hamas attacks.

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Another volunteer, Nachman Dyksztejna, gave written testimony that he saw the bodies of two women with their hands and feet tied to the bed in Kibbutz Be’eri.

“One of them was sexually terrorized with a knife inserted into her vagina and her internal organs removed,” he said in a statement.

Having worked at the place where the aforementioned festival was held, the witness noted that he found the small huts-shelters there “filled with women’s bodies. The upper parts of their clothes were torn and the lower parts of their bodies were completely exposed. Loads and loads of women. […] If you look closely at their heads, you can see that they each received one shot directly in the head.”

Investigators acknowledge that fighting was still taking place in some areas just days after the attacks, making it limited or non-existent to thoroughly document crime scenes or collect forensic evidence.

“There were still terrorists in Israel for the first five days,” said Minister M. Golan. “And there were hundreds, hundreds of bodies everywhere.” They were burned, without organs, completely butchered.”

Medical expert: “We see rape victims. We see women who have experienced violence. We have pathologists and we see the bruises, the scrapes and the wounds, and it turns out that they were sexually assaulted.”

It is claimed that the most important evidence was provided to the investigators by the employees and volunteers of the army’s Shura base.

BBC reporters who visited it spoke to rescue teams, who said they saw clear evidence of rape and sexual abuse on the bodies, including broken pelvic bones, likely from prolonged brutal abuse.

“We see women of all ages,” Captain Maajan, one of the reservists in the forensic team, told the BBC. – We see rape victims. We see women who have experienced violence. We have pathologists and we see the bruises, we learn about the scrapes and the wounds, and it turns out that they were sexually assaulted.”

When asked on which part of the body she recorded signs of abuse, the woman noted that there were “plenty” of them both among girls and among women of all ages.

“Really a lot,” said the serving soldier, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Avigayil. – It’s hard to say. I have come across more than a few charred bodies and I have no idea what they went through before that. And the bodies with the bottom half missing – I also don’t know if they were raped. But women who were obviously raped? There are enough of them. More than enough.”

Scanpix/AP Photo/Hamas Images of the massacre at Kibbutz Kfar Azza in Israel

Some of those on the job talk about “dozens” of such victims, but are quick to warn that evidence is still being collected and compiled.

“Everything was systematic”

Legal expert dr. The Elkayam-Levy-led citizen’s commission to gather testimony on sex crimes is calling for international recognition that what happened on October 7 was a systematic abuse amounting to a crime against humanity.

“We see certain patterns,” she commented to a BBC reporter. – So, it was not a coincidence. This was no accident. They came with a clear order. It was […] rape as genocide.”

Reuters/Scanpix photo/Hamas attacked Kfar Azza kibbutz in Israel

The volunteers of the Shura military base expressed a similar assessment, stating that the marks of violence on the bodies of the victims were similar.

“There are patterns. Groups of women from the same place were treated similarly, one of the volunteers noted. – There could be a group of women who were raped in one way and we see similarities in the bodies. And another group who were not raped, but were shot many times. Different terrorist groups seem to have used different forms of brutality.”

“It was a premeditated, systematic event,” police chief Yaakov Shabtaj emphasized to journalists.

David Katz, a spokesman for Israel’s cybercrime unit, which is involved in the investigation, told reporters that it was too early to try to prove that sexual violence was planned as part of the attack, but data obtained from the phones of the Hamas attackers suggested that “everything was systematic.”

“It would be reckless to say that we can already prove it […]but everything that was done there was done systematically, he said. – Nothing happened by chance. The rapes were systematic.”

AFP/Scanpix photo/Hamas fighters

Meanwhile, the Israeli government has pointed to documents it says were found on Hamas fighters that appear to support the idea that sexual violence was planned. It released tapes of interrogations of some of the arrested militants, in which they appeared to say the women were singled out for the purpose.

Last week, the United Nations Women’s Council issued a statement saying it “unequivocally condemns the brutal attacks by Hamas” and is “alarmed by the numerous reports of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence used in these attacks.”

According to dr. C. Elkayam-Levy, international women’s rights organizations have been too slow to respond to her call to support this type of information.

“This is the most documented atrocity that humanity has ever seen,” she stressed.