‘Was the world quiet about October 7 rapes because it was Jewish women?’ Netanyahu hints at anti-semitism as he blasts women’s groups and world leaders for not ‘screaming’ about the atrocities

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized women’s rights groups and world leaders for not “crying out” about the rape and mutilation of Israeli civilians by Hamas, hinting that their silence is because the victims are Jewish women.

Horrifying details of the Hamas atrocities on October 7 have emerged, with eyewitnesses detailing how Israeli women were gang-raped and mutilated before being shot dead.

“I have heard heartbreaking stories of abuse,” a visibly emotional Netanyahu said last night. “I have heard, as you have, of sexual violence and unprecedented cases of brutal rape.”

But Netanyahu said that despite the emergence of horrifying evidence of torture and gang rape by Hamas terrorists, women’s rights groups and world leaders have remained silent, hinting that it is linked to anti-Semitism.

“Were you silent because they were Jewish women?” Netanyahu asked in Hebrew.

Switching to English, an angry Netanyahu said: “I say to women’s rights organizations, human rights organizations: you have heard about the rape of Israeli women, the terrible atrocities, sexual mutilation – where the hell are you?

“I expect all civilized leaders, governments and countries to speak out against this atrocity,” he added.

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden called reports of sexual violence “horrifying” and called on the world to condemn “horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty.”

Shortly after Netanyahu’s impassioned speech, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said: “Reports of sexual violence that occurred on October 7 in Israel are appalling.

“Survivors need to be heard, supported and cared for. The allegations must be fully investigated.”

Russell, who did not mention Hamas terrorists in her statement, added: “We condemn gender-based violence and all forms of violence against women and girls.”

It comes as survivors of the deadly attack on the Nova festival on October 7 revealed how gangs of Hamas terrorists raped, tortured and mutilated Israeli women and men.

One witness told Israeli police they saw a woman mutilated by Hamas militants before the terrorist shot her in the head during a gang rape.

Others said they heard women screaming as they were attacked and saw gunmen cut off their breasts and throw them to the side of the road.

Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies found in the aftermath also told officials gruesome evidence of torture and murder, describing how festival-goers were shot in the genitals and how in other places they found victims murdered in their homes, their genitals mutilated. with knives.

The combat paramedic said he saw the body of a young woman with her legs spread, her pants pulled down and what looked like sperm on her lower back. An army reservist tasked with identifying those killed by the terrorists said some of the women were wearing only bloody underwear.

Although few victims of the atrocity are believed to have survived the attack, some of these recorded eyewitness accounts have been released by Israeli police and made available to several news organizations.

Horrifying reports show rape and sexual violence were part of Hamas’ atrocity-filled rampage, which killed 1,200 Israeli civilians as they screamed and begged for their lives.

By releasing the testimony, Israel is calling on the international community to recognize the October 7 Hamas attack as a crime against humanity. “rape as genocide.”

One woman who was present at the gruesome scene said: “There was the body of a woman with a blood stain on her genitals. At first I thought she had an accident due to fear.” When we picked it up, we knew for sure that it was blood.”

Another told police in a recorded video: “There were basically a lot of gunshot wounds and also targeted shooting in the male genital area and we saw that a lot. They dealt with the genitals of both women and men.

“The women we saw were civilians, we mostly saw either breast amputation or shooting only in the chest, just shooting from one side of the chest to the other.

“They were conscious when they got to us. For men, it was the genitals, shooting in the genitals, they had something with it, or amputation.”

In one chilling statement recorded on video, a witness known only as Witness S described seeing a female victim being passed from one attacker to another as they raped her while she “bleeded from the backs.”

The terrorist group “cut off her breast” and then “threw it out onto the road” and “played with it,” the witness recalled.

She continues to say that the victim was handed over to another man in uniform.

“He penetrated her and shot her in the head before finishing,” she said, according to the BBC, which has seen video of the deposition. “He didn’t even take his pants; he shoots and ejaculates.”

The woman in the video described how she watched the militants while pretending to be dead. “I couldn’t understand what I was seeing,” she said.

Another man who was at the festival at the time of the bloody invasion told the BBC he heard “the noise and screams of people being killed, raped and beheaded.”

When asked by the TV presenter how he could be sure that the screams he heard were indicative of sexual assault, he said that, listening at the time, he believed that the screams could only be the result of rape.

In a statement issued through a support organization, he called the attack carried out by the Hamas terrorist group “inhumane.”

“Some women were raped before death, some were raped while injured, and some were already dead when the terrorists raped their lifeless bodies,” his statement said. “I desperately wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do.”

Another witness, Ron Freger, fled the music festival when Hamas attacked and said he heard women screaming for help.

“I was lying in a hole and shouting to the girl: “They are raping me, they are raping me,” he told the Associated Press.

According to him, a few minutes later he heard shots nearby and she fell silent.

“At this moment there is a feeling of complete powerlessness. “I’m lying in this hole and I can’t do anything,” explained the 23-year-old man.

“I have no weapon, I have nothing, I am surrounded by other people who are hiding with me, and we are completely powerless.”

Two months after Hamas attacked a music festival, farming communities and army posts in southern Israel and near the Gaza Strip, police are still trying to piece together the pieces.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, priority was given to identifying bodies rather than preserving evidence, complicating the investigation.

Israeli police now say they are reviewing 60,000 videos taken from body cameras of Hamas militants. Footage from social media and CCTV cameras will also be checked to bring the culprits to justice. However, it was difficult to find rape victims because many of them were killed by their attackers.

But police say they do not have “multiple” eyewitness accounts of the sexual assault.

They have not said exactly how many and have not yet interviewed any of the surviving victims of the attacks.