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.”

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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  • anarchyrabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    319·
    8 months ago

    I don’t agree with this comment. Both of those acts are fucking awful. Anyone to be raped must be an awful experience and extremely traumatic. I understand that some who is raped are not dead, but still a vile act.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      You should read that comment again. They aren’t arguing that rape is not a vile act. They are saying that the people who are using this woman’s horrifying experience as propaganda to justify murdering tens of thousands of people don’t actually care about her suffering, they only care about pushing their agenda of Arab extermination. It is literally what the Nazis in Germany did to the Jews 80 years ago.

    • nac82@lemm.eeEnglish
      918·
      8 months ago

      If you truly believed this, you would be offended by the political use of rape to justify the genocide of children.

      You don’t want to engage what my comment actually said, the fact that a single rape in the face of genocide does not an article make.

      My comment was about the focus on this crime as an individual act justifying genocide and you want to refocus back to the singular act while not really addressing the editorializing of NYT.

      You are playing the game the genocidal people want you to play instead of engaging this propoganda meaningfully.