A good analysis of the false claim about mass rape by HAMAS. I don't know if you run into the claim
over there, but it is always brought up here.
If you read it use the whole article in the link.
On 3/17/2024 10:22 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote:
by Arun Gupta, Yes! magazine, March 5, 2024
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/03/05/israel-hamas-oct7-report-gaza
/Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks that resulted in at least 1,163 deaths, rumors began circulating
that Israeli women were experiencing horrific mass rape and sexual violence. Months later, a
position paper by Physicians for Human Rights Israel and a New York Times investigation convinced
many observers that Hamas used rape as a weapon of war. But an investigation by YES! examining
both reports, other media investigations, hundreds of news articles, interviews with Israeli
sources, and photo and video evidence reveals a shocking conclusion: *There is no evidence mass
rape occurred.*/
The New Yorker, New York Times, Associated Press, and The Nation treat PHRI’s paper as the gold
standard for proof of Hamas’ rape and sexual violence. But the paper is shockingly thin. It lacks
original reporting and is based on media reports that are dubious at best with no corroboration—no
forensic evidence, no survivor testimony, no video evidence.
During a two-hour-long interview that was heated at times, Hadas Ziv, director of ethics and
policy at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), acknowledged numerous problems with the
position paper she co-authored, “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence As a Weapon of War During the
October 7, 2023 Hamas Attacks.”
Ziv admitted credibility problems with sources and that she did not review all available evidence.
She was “unaware” numerous sources had fabricated atrocity stories about Oct. 7. ...
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