Israel is reportedly considering whether to charge Hamas fighters with rape, after a witness testified about the suspected gang rape at a site. Supernova Music Festival Massacre.
Investigators from the Lahav 433 National Crimes Unit of the Israeli Police collected evidence of sexual crimes against women by Hamas attackers during Deadly cross-border raid on October 7According to the Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Maariv, reported on Wednesday.
A survivor of the attack on a music festival near the Gaza border has testified, saying that while she was hiding from terrorists, she witnessed a young woman being gang-raped and murdered.
“While I was hiding, I could see out of the corner of my eye that A [gunman] The woman was quoted as saying: “He was raping her.”
The survivor reportedly testified that other gunmen raped the victim and later shot her in the head, then mutilated her body.
Another witness who was hiding in the same area but did not see the rape reportedly told investigators that the surviving woman told him about the incident immediately after it happened.
Previous accusations of rape by Hamas fighters came from emergency responders from the Zakka group who collected bodies from looted kibbutzim and the festival site. Some respondents said they saw the naked bodies of dead women with signs of abuse.
It is believed that the Israeli authorities are detaining hundreds of suspects involved in this case Hamas attack.
Israeli authorities have not previously reported any official cases of rape, but several women taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, some of them party-goers captured at the festival, were paraded naked in the streets of Gaza.
Shani Luke, a German-Israeli woman who went to the festival, was seen half-naked and unconscious lying face down in the back of a pickup truck full of militants in Gaza.
She was later declared dead When authorities found bone fragments that matched her DNA.
