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Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza

www.nytimes.com Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza

Amit Soussana is the first former hostage to publicly say she was sexually abused in captivity. A U.N. report has said it found “clear and convincing information” that some hostages suffered “conflict-related sexual violence.”

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“He sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face,” Ms. Soussana said. “Then he dragged me to the bedroom.”

This month, a United Nations report said that there was “clear and convincing information” that some hostages had suffered sexual violence and there were “reasonable grounds” to believe sexual violence occurred during the raid, while acknowledging the “challenges and limitations” of examining the issue.

She said Muhammad slept outside the bedroom, in the adjacent living room, but frequently entered the bedroom in his underwear, asking about her sex life and offering to massage her body.

Muhammad forced her to commit a sexual act on him, Ms. Soussana said. After the assault, Muhammad left the room to wash, leaving Ms. Soussana sitting naked in the dark, she said. When he returned, she recalled him showing remorse, saying, “I’m bad, I’m bad, please don’t tell Israel.”

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Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza

www.nytimes.com /2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html

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I'm very sorry that happened to her, however it does not justify Israel's reaction and it certainly doesn't justify the thousands of dead children.

I believe women. I don't believe Israeli's. Fuck Israel.

Why is this article on a single rape being reposted daily?
I'll say what I said in the last post, I am unable to muster the energy to care about a single rape in the face of mass slaughter/genocide.
It's only natural for victims of long-term mass violence to resist with violence. The question is why is this single act of violence worth an article, but we are not seeing individual articles for each child starved to death by Israel?
My answer is this rape is being leveraged as propoganda to justify the Holocaust 2.0.
Hitler would rage about the crimes of the jews as justification for the first run, it only makes sense for the new nazis to repeat the strategy.
- Why is this article on a single rape being reposted daily?
  The article was written just yesterday and Lemmy shows no reposts of the article to this community.
  Archive link of the article.
  
  You can click into the cross-post and see that this was originally posted yesterday on World News. You can also see this is cross posted in r/conservative.
  This also isn't the first piece by NYT on this topic. Just within the last month they have published 5 articles on this same crime.
  Does that mean this single reported event needs to be reposted to the news subs 10+ times? Seems like a way to drown out the numerous genocidal acts happening daily.
  What is the point of having separate news and world news communities if one is just going to be a repost location for another?
  You can also look at the article itself and see it is clearly a propoganda attempt to justify genocide.
  They aren't writing articles for each child bombed or starved to death, which is still ongoing, to redirect focus to a single criminal act.
  It should also be pointed out, this criminal act can't be handled by a criminal justice system because of the genocide being enacted on Palestine by Israel. A rape is something that calls for a judicial process, not a military response.