A representative of the State Attorney’s Office tells members of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality that in the year since October 7, no indictments have been brought against members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who raped and murdered Israelis.
While investigations are ongoing, including a team dedicated to sexual crimes, “I can’t tell you times and specific dates,” the representative states, drawing consternation from both coalition and opposition lawmakers.
“When a terrorist from Islamic Jihad in March 2024 said that he raped a woman in Nir Oz, there’s no indictment?” asks Likud lawmaker Keti Shitrit. “What else do you need to know to issue an indictment?”
“There are terrorists who admitted” to rape, chimes in committee chairwoman Pnina-Tamano Shata (National Unity), stating that “we want to know about the progress of the investigation. Time is important.”
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