New Report to UN on Horrific Torture & Sexual Abuse of Hostages by Hamas

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Teens forced to perform sexual acts on each other: Report to UN details Hamas torture. Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment. The report from  Israel’s health ministry details the horrific torture and abuse inflicted on the hostages in Gaza.

 

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🔴 Women, men, and children were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, such as beatings, isolation, deprivation of food and water, branding, hair-pulling, and sexual assault.
🔴 Two children were bound together and beaten throughout their captivity
🔴 Two other children were found with burn marks consistent with branding on their lower limbs.
🔴 Two teenage hostages described how they were made to perform sexual acts on each other.
🔴 Many hostages of all ages and genders described undergoing sexual abuse at the hands of their captors, including a woman who was assaulted at gunpoint by a Hamas terrorist.
🔴 Many hostages were subjected to torture by withholding medical attention.
🔴 Hostages were made to endure starvation. They lost an average of 10-17% of their body weight.
🔴 In extreme cases, children lost up to 18% of their body weight and required intensive care upon return.

 

Compiled from the testimonies of hostages who were released under a November 2023 deal and those who were rescued by Israeli forces, the report details how they were burned and beaten, starved and humiliated, as well as how the abuse impacted their mental and physical health even long after they were freed. It marks the first formal report by the Health Ministry about the hostages’ experiences.

 

According to the report, the terrorist captors forced two minors to perform sexual acts on one another and compelled them to take off their clothes in front of them, touched their private parts, and whipped their genitalia. The same two former hostages also reported that “they were held bound and were beaten throughout their captivity. Signs of binding, scars, and marks consistent with trauma were found,” the report says.

 

 

“Additionally, two young children had burn marks on their lower limbs,” the report adds. “One child stated that the burns were the result of a deliberate branding with a heated object. Both the child and adults who were with him in captivity described the incident as a purposeful branding event, not an accident. It was described as an extremely traumatic experience.”

 

“One of the returned hostages described being sexually assaulted at gunpoint by a Hamas terrorist,” the report says. “On several occasions, captors forced women of all ages to undress while others, including the captors, watched. Some women reported that the captors sexually assaulted them. 

 

Some former hostages have spoken publicly. Earlier this year, freed hostage Amit Soussana told The New York Times of how she was forced to perform “a sexual act” on one of her captors. Conditions were ‘designed to torture the hostages psychologically’.

 

A total of 251 hostages were abducted from Israel on October 7, 2023, during the Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel that killed 1,200 people.

Ninety-six of them remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF. Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 38 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.

 

Captives, including children, were forced to watch videos of the October 7 atrocities. Many of the terrorists who took part in the attack filmed it, including extreme acts of cruelty.

 

 

The men, meanwhile, “endured severe physical abuse, including continuous starvation, beatings, burns with galvanized iron (branding), hair-pulling, confinement in closed rooms with a limited amount of food and water, being held in isolation with hands and feet tied, and being denied access to the bathroom, which forced them to defecate on themselves.”

 

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said the report painted “a grim reality of the physical abuse and psychological torment” endured by the hostages. It urged a comprehensive deal “to secure the immediate release of all hostages.”

 

Based on reports by AFP | VOA News | TOI |  2024-12-31

 

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[jimmybcool]

Interested in how sympathy for Hamas runs when reading things like this.  Let's include they built military bunkers under hospitals and schools and use their own people as human shields.  Israel is in the right to wipe every Hamas member out.

[JeffersLos]

Horrific.

 

What on Earth could drive such atrocities against such a peace loving, land sharing people.

[quake]

The acts of the religion,  of love, peace and harmony.

Is anyone surprised at this.

Spare a thought for the ones still held captive.