Investigators say Hamas perpetrators deliberately used sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon during the Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel.

Sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and their aftermath, a new report by an Israeli non-profit has found.

I don’t know what they took before they did this, they were like animals. There were several of them, and they genuinely enjoyed it,” one victim said of the abuse by Hamas fighters.

A new Civil Commission on the October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children report, gathered over the course of two years, found that sexual violence during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack was not incidental but “deliberate,

Israeli lawmakers approved a bill on Monday setting up a special tribunal with the authority to try and sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza.

The legislation details how judges and prosecutors are to be selected, how trials are to be conducted, and provides for an appeals process.

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