Hamas terrorists raped women, used shovel to behead victim who fought off attack
A survivor of the October 7 Hamas massacre said he sees the terrified faces of the women who were raped and killed by the terror group in his nightmares. At one point during the attacks, he was forced to hide under the body of a dead woman to escape the terrorists.
Yoni Saadon, 39, is a survivor of the supernova music festival, where Hamas terrorists killed more than 300 participants in a mass murder. The festival took place in the desert near Kibbutz Re'im. Many revelers tried to flee on foot and in their vehicles but were murdered or captured.
The terrorist group's attack on southern Israel resulted in the death of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including 31 Americans, and thousands of others were injured. Hamas also took about 240 other hostages. In response to the Hamas invasion, Israel launched airstrikes and a ground offensive to wipe out the terrorist group and secure the release of the hostages.
Saadon's witness, which he told in an interview with The Sunday Times, UK, is yet another first-hand account of Hamas subjecting women to sexual violence during its attack on Israel. A father of four, Saadon said one of his daughters almost attended the festival with him before canceling at the last minute.
The father told his story to the British news outlet in an area set up for festival survivors located southeast of Tel Aviv. Saadon said during the attack on the rave that he witnessed the murder of a young woman who was hiding near him under the stage at the music festival.
“She fell to the ground, shot in the head, and I pulled her body over me and soaked up her blood to make it look like I died too,” he said. “I will never forget her face. Every night I wake up to it and apologize to her, saying, “I'm sorry.”
The music festival survivor said about an hour passed before he peeked out from his hiding place. Saadon recalled that about 10 Hamas fighters beat and raped a woman he described as having “the face of an angel.”
“She shouted,—I am going to die anyway because of what you are doing, just kill me!†When they finished, they laughed and the last one shot her in the head,†Saadon remembered.Â
“I kept thinking it could be one of my daughters,” he added
At one point, Saadon hid in some bushes while two Hamas fighters sexually assaulted a young woman who continued to fight them, resisting their attempts to remove her clothes. Finally, one of the Hamas terrorists decapitated the woman with a shovel, and Saadon said he saw her head rolling on the ground.
The terror group Hamas has denied that its militants committed sexual violence during its October attack. Last month, Hamas official Basem Naim claimed in an interview with The Washington Post that the terrorist organization considers “any sexual relationship or activity outside marriage completely haram”, in accordance with the principles of Islam.
Bar Yuval-Shani, 58, one of the volunteer therapists at the support center for festival survivors, however, said Saadon's story was not the only story of rape she had heard, according to The Sunday Times. She added that survivors of the music festival massacre are “deeply traumatized.”
Shelly Harush, an Israeli police commander leading the investigation into whether Hamas engaged in a widespread campaign of rape and sexual violence against women on October 7, told WaPo that sexual violence was likely part of Hamas's invasion plan.
Additional accounts of Hamas sex crimes come from Shari, a rabbinical corps member of the Israel Defense Forces responsible for preparing the bodies of victims for burial. In October, Shari told The Daily Mail that there was evidence of mass rape by Hamas of women, children and the elderly, with the violence so extreme that many victims had their pelvises broken.
Shari also described the burned bodies of women and children, some of whom had their hands tied behind their backs. The rabbinical member of the body even remembered a baby that was “cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.”
More than 50 days after terrorist attacks by Hamas, the United Nations entity, UN Women, has finally published statement on Friday condemning the terrorist group's attack on Israel. UN Women also expressed “regret” that fighting has resumed between Israel and Hamas after a temporary pause to exchange civilian hostages for Palestinian prisoners who have committed murders and acts of terrorism.
—We unequivocally condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7. We are alarmed by the many reports of sexual atrocities and sexual violence during these attacks,” the statement read.
UN Women said it supports the UN Commission of Inquiry, which the body said had launched an investigation into reports of gender-based violence following the October 7 attacks on Israel. It then went on to demand responsibility for “all acts of sex”. based violence that occurred on and after that day, in addition to demanding the release of the hostages and a ceasefire.
—For everyone in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and especially women and children, we call for a return to the path of peace, respect for international humanitarian and international human rights law, and an end to the suffering of people in Gaza and in Israel, and those families are still waiting for the return of their loved ones,” UN Women stated.
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