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Ms. Soussana, 40, is the first Israeli to speak publicly about being sexually assaulted during captivity after the Hamas-led raid on southern Israel. In her interviews with The Times, conducted mostly in English, she provided extensive details of sexual and other violence she suffered during a 55-day ordeal.

Ms. Soussana’s personal account of her experience in captivity is consistent with what she told two doctors and a social worker less than 24 hours after she was freed on Nov. 30. Their reports about her account state the nature of the sexual act; The Times agreed not to disclose the specifics.

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For months, Hamas and its supporters have denied that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. 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.

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[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Reason this is controversial is because hamas is literally the same thing as IDF, bibi funded it and that much genocide also radicalized a shit ton of people, hamas is an asset of Israel, they shouldn’t be equated to palestine in anyway

This exact story will now be used to justify all the war crimes Israel has been doing, when hamas does something, Israel should be the one held accountable, not Palestine, there are no ‘two sides’, its only one side continuously killing the innocent

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No disagreement here really. This doesn't justify Israel's war crimes at all. Whether Hamas is effectively the same as the IDF or not, they're a bunch of radicalized shitheads who do not in any way represent the Palestinians. They're closer to ruling dictators than they are champions of the people.

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You are right, but when you make the both sides bad argument, the pro genocide have an excuse ‘Oh hamas bad as well’ but the thing is the very reason hamas exists is because of Israel, and then according to me alteast Israel should be held equally accountable

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Something I've recently realized is that I can and should do more to call out the genocide proponents. I generally don't engage with them because there's no intelligent discussion to be had there, and there's a lot more interesting and nuanced things to talk about with people who agree this is a genocide that needs to stop.

But, that does give the illusion that the genocide proponents aren't being challenged, and that instead of harshly criticizing Israel I'm just saying "both sides bad". That's something I'm going to try and improve on, because I need to make it crystal clear that Hamas' actions are not even remotely an excuse for the IDF to be genocidal.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Well out of all takes, this certainly is one