A new report from an Israeli nonprofit concludes that Hamas and its collaborators used sexual violence as a deliberate and pervasive tool throughout the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and in the months that followed.
Called "Silenced No More," the report was published Tuesday by the Civil Commission, an independent body dedicated to investigating Hamas's use of gender-based violence. Researchers spent two years reviewing more than 400 testimonies and logging nearly 2,000 hours of visual materials, ultimately cataloguing 13 distinct patterns of abuse — among them gang rape, sexual torture, and forced nudity, according to the Los Angeles Times.