The Truth About Hamas - Reader Warning! ... Not For The Faint Hearted

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The Truth About Hamas
Documenting its rape, torture and mutilation on Oct. 7 and after, even as many choose to deny what happened.
By The Editorial Board
May 13, 2026

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.

“I saw them raping her,” says Raz Cohen, who escaped the Nova Music Festival where 396 people were slaughtered. “Then they murdered her. And then they raped her again.”

Eden Wessely, who came to Nova to rescue a friend, found and filmed a naked, burned body. “Her dress was pulled up, and she wasn’t wearing underwear, not because it burned, because there was no trace. . . . Her legs were spread. Her genitals were exposed.” A review by forensic pathologists confirmed these details.

Yoni Saadon recounts another horror: “She fell to the ground, shot in the head, and I pulled her body over me and smeared her blood on me so it would look as if I was dead too. . . . I will never forget her face. Every night I wake to it and apologize to her, saying ‘I’m sorry.’” Later he saw “a beautiful woman with the face of an angel and 8 or 10 fighters beating and raping her.” The last one shot her in the head. Each example here is of a civilian non-combatant.
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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.

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Hamas and other perpetrators arrived at the Nova Music Festival and its surrounding areas in the early hours of October 7th. One witness from the Nova site sought cover in the caravan in which she had arrived, together with seven other people. As the attack unfolded, she began to hear acts of rape. She described hearing three rapes from her hiding place, with the sounds originating from three separate locations in the immediate vicinity of the caravan. After leaving her hiding place, the witness was also an eyewitness to the scene at the site, including the condition and positioning of bodies observed in the aftermath of the attack, as further described below. In relation to one of the rapes she heard, she said: “I heard one rape where they were passing her around. She was probably injured, judging by her screams—screams you have never heard anywhere. It’s between silence and screams, between pain and wanting to die. These are screams . . . it’s something I have never heard in my life, and I have no way to explain to you what it sounds like. But it’s screams. It’s screams. It was simply horrific. And after one finished, he told another to go up ‘Ta’al’ [in Arabic], like to the next one. And apparently there was a round. . . . And after they finished, they shot her.” She continued: “You hear the screams, and then you hear silence. You hear a bang—and silence. And then there’s a kind of calm. And then you say: okay, it’s over at least. She’s done with it. And like that with each person they abused—you heard. The moment they were killed, I said, ‘Oh my God, finally, it’s over.’”

Describing the events she heard, she stated, “my greatest fear was that he would notice me somewhere and I wouldn’t be able to defend myself, and then they would rape me. Because you hear—this is not rape as it is usually understood. I don’t know what ‘regular rape’ is, but what was heard there was not that. There was laughter. There were jokes. They were passing them from one to another. It wasn’t—it was done for fun. I keep saying this. . . . . They were celebrating there. They were really, really celebrating with this.” About another case of rape, she mentioned: “Another one was that I heard someone screaming, ‘Don’t touch her, don’t do this,’ and then they apparently raped his girlfriend . . . in front of his eyes. And then they killed both of them. I can tell you where I heard it. I was sitting here in the caravan; I heard rape here, here, and here. I can point to where. It was very distinct. It was on this side, on this side, and on this side—three points.”

From “Silenced No More” -- A Report by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children (298 pages)

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