by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller November 26, 2023 Aish
As Israel's war with Hamas progresses, new false assertions about Israel’s behavior and the war’s progress arise. Here are four big recent myths and facts about what is truly going on.
Myth: Hamas didn’t rape Israeli women on October 7
Israeli investigators have been documenting a systematic campaign of brutal rapes carried out by Hamas against Israeli women on October 7. Over a thousand testimonies and 66,000 video clips paint a picture of widespread, systematic sexual violence, as well as other instances of torture, dismemberment, and mutilation.
But that hasn’t stopped the myth that Hamas carried out no rapes from being spread. For example, two Canadian politicians – Susan Kim, a city councilor in Victoria, and Sarah Jama, an MP in Ontario’s Provincial Parliament – claimed that accusations of rape are “unverified.” Ms. Jama also asserted “there is no actual evidence of these rapes and the babies with their heads cut off - all these things are pieces of misinformation.” Their letter was signed by a host of Canadian human rights organizations and the director of the sexual assault center at the University of Alberta.
Those who wish to read first person accounts of Hamas’ sexual violence can do so here. Foreign outlets such as PBS have conducted extensive interviews with survivors of Hamas’ attacks and have found that rape was an integral part of the attacks. The sheer scale of corroborating accounts indicates that the thousands of victims and witnesses who described Hamas’ atrocities are telling the truth.
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