From the Liveblog of
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Report: Police receive witness testimony of gang rape, murder of a woman during Oct. 7 onslaught
Police have reportedly received testimony from witnesses to a gang rape that took place during the October 7 onslaught in southern Israel perpetrated by Hamas terrorists.
The witness told police that she had seen the gang rape of another young woman who had been trying to hide from Hamas terrorists who were dressed in army uniforms, Haaretz reports without citing any sources.
“They bent someone over… I realized he was raping her and passing her on to someone else who was also in an army uniform,” the witness said, according to the Haaretz report.
One of the rapists then shot the woman in the back of the head and several terrorists proceeded to mutilate her body, the witness told police.
A second witness told police that the first witness had shared what she saw with him in real time, Haaretz reports.
To date, the most corroborated accounts of sex crimes during the Hamas onslaught have been from volunteers from Zaka, an ultra-Orthodox organization that helps retrieve and identify bodies.
Israeli security forces, law enforcement and medical officials have yet to formally confirm allegations of rape by Hamas terrorists but the charge has been used regularly by Israeli government officials in their recounting of what took place on October 7.
