Various UN groups this week spoke out about allegations of rape and sexual assault by Hamas attackers on 7 October. Two months after Hamas attacked Israel, fresh promises of investigation, and fresh condemnation, are giving campaigners hope that victims of alleged sexual violence may see justice after all. The evidencePictures and videos captured by Hamas fighters, and footage and stills of the immediate aftermath, showed signs of sexual assault. US President Joe Biden called for governments and international organisations to "forcefully condemn the sexual violence of Hamas terrorists without equivocation". Not long before, the UN's Guterres called for "numerous accounts of sexual violence" by Hamas to be "vigorously investigated and prosecuted".

Source: News 24 December 07, 2023 14:45 UTC