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Fri May 15, 2026, 12:13 AM Friday

The Truth About Hamas [View all]

Reading “Silenced No More,” the new report by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, we were transported back to Oct. 27, 2023, and a screening of the raw footage of Hamas’s atrocities. The mouths of journalists were agape, but time dulls horrific reality.

The new report is a catalogue, for memory’s sake, of Hamas depravity. Testimony from site after site attests to rape and assault. Screams and pleas. Gunshots to the face and genitals. Mutilation. Burning. Bodies naked, legs spread. Grotesque scenes staged. All forming an evidentiary record, the result of more than 10,000 photos and video segments and more than 430 interviews, testimonies and meetings with survivors, witnesses and experts.

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A male says he was gang-raped at the Nova site, providing medical records and a detailed account: “They laughed, they were really pleased, as if I was their sex doll.” The Hamas invaders had been given operational materials including Arabic-to-Hebrew phrase lists such as “take off your pants/take your clothes off,” “lie down” and “spread your legs.” The planned sexual degradation speaks to years of Palestinian propaganda that treats Jews as sub-human.

Sexual abuse continued for hostages, who are on video being groped and humiliated during abductions. In one video, a female hostage begs for her life while the narrator says, “This is one of the Jewish dogs.”

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We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors. All the more so because the sexual violence by Hamas has been aggressively denied by an antisemitic global left that wants us to forget. Everywhere denial serves the same purpose: to distort Israel’s defensive war as if it were wanton violence. Such deniers prefer anything to reminding the world why Israel has no choice but to fight for its life.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-sexual-violence-report-civil-commission-october-7-israel-2e68d781?st=SMjMWv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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The report Silence No Moe

https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_882e9391df384e169d29f16c0faefeac.pdf

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The Truth About Hamas [View all] question everything Friday OP
The Civil Commission's Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence - Silenced NO More Behind the Aegis Friday #1
i've seen a lot of ppl say kristoff's OPINION piece mopinko Friday #2
Hamas atrocities were documented by themselves. Using cell phones of victims and question everything Friday #3
who can forget? lots of ppl. mopinko Friday #4
Absolutely! Mossfern Friday #9
they were absolutely ready. the campus protests smelled funny to me at the time. mopinko Friday #13
It was definitely planned to get Trump back in the WH. yardwork Friday #58
They had the protestors ready to go the next day mcar Friday #16
and they sure did. mopinko Friday #17
We sure are mcar Friday #18
ya know, i was a mod here back on the day. mopinko Friday #20
Yes! The whataboutism is strong. Behind the Aegis Friday #38
As shown on this very thread mcar Friday #39
K&R betsuni Friday #5
Yes. Hamas committed sexual atrocities Oct 7. harumph Friday #6
Reasonable people shouldn't dispute the atrocities of Oct 7 sarisataka Friday #8
I see more deniers of atrocities by and apologists for Israel than apologists for the atrocities of Hamas at DU. PufPuf23 Friday #29
I have seen the opposite sarisataka Friday #45
You need new glasses, PufPuf23 Friday #48
I see just fine, you can see in this thread where some cannot bring themselves to speak ill of Hamas sarisataka Friday #51
I am saying antisemitism is real and has been boosted on steroids by Israel's response to Oct 7. PufPuf23 Friday #56
I can concur with that observation. In fact there were posts pushing Democracy Now's Jeremy Scahill lostincalifornia Friday #54
u have it backwards. mopinko Friday #12
If that is the case, then it's very bad journo. harumph Friday #19
i mean, who here trusts the nyt these days? mopinko Friday #21
K&R Solly Mack Friday #7
The truth about Israel. - 78 years of ethnic cleansing malaise Friday #10
Are you saying Mossfern Friday #11
Answer that re Gaza, Lebanon or the West Bank malaise Friday #30
I've seen lots of condemnation Mossfern Friday #43
propaganda. mopinko Friday #15
I literally had a poster here tell me Rob H. Friday #24
Yes indeed malaise Friday #28
Imagine if someone said they didn't want to hear what happened before Oct 8th. AloeVera Friday #47
Watch this also: Nabka Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel's Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience Nanjeanne Friday #33
Kick malaise Friday #35
Time dulls horrific reality - as does Jew hate mcar Friday #14
agree. mopinko Friday #22
It is. nt mcar Friday #25
Big difference between malaise Friday #36
Tell this to all the Jews who were harassed on campus, on their way to synagogues, on the NY rail question everything Friday #55
I still can't get over Hamas terrorists praised as "freedom fighters." betsuni Friday #40
Mandela-like, they were mcar Friday #41
Didn't happen in a vacuum Blue Full Moon Friday #23
So does that mean the acts of Oct 7 are justified sarisataka Friday #26
The conflict in Gaza has been the deadlier for Palestinian journalists there Rob H. Friday #27
and many of them have turned out to b hamas operatives, mopinko Friday #31
According to the IDF Rob H. Friday #52
A good read here malaise Friday #32
Again .... Mossfern Friday #44
I believe the continued silence sarisataka Friday #46
Sadly Mossfern Friday #57
IDF Angels celebrating the harm and death of innocent Palestinians. PufPuf23 Friday #50
I don't know why it is so hard for some to condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas AND the IDF at the same time. Fil1957 Friday #34
There are at least a few posters on DU, who, even at this late date, Rob H. Friday #37
No matter how you slice it, there are no "good guys" here. nt Buns_of_Fire Friday #42
Yep. Neither side has clean hands EdmondDantes_ Friday #59
Two wrongs have never made a right. It is possible, and I think necessary, for any person of integrity to condemn both artemisia1 Friday #49
We all knew Hamas consisted of vicious savages. Intractable Friday #53
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