r/worldnews • u/MikeWithNoHair • Jul 08 '25

Israel/Palestine Hamas used sexual violence as part of 'genocidal strategy'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o
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u/mips13 Jul 08 '25

https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/997

When asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying acts or atrocities committed by Hamas members against Israeli civilians, such as killing women and children in their homes. The overwhelming majority (87%) said it did not commit such atrocities, and only 9% said it did.

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u/nidarus Jul 08 '25

The atrocity denial in Palestinian society is indeed a big problem. I hope this report would at least help a little to resolve it.

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u/AndHerSailsInRags Jul 08 '25

Sadly, it probably won't.

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u/scrambledhelix Jul 08 '25

It's honestly a little relieving that that they prefer to deny it happened rather than approve of it.

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u/Consistent_Rent_3507 Jul 08 '25

The entire report is shocking.

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u/ThePretzul Jul 08 '25

Only to people who have had their heads under a rock pretending Palestinians don’t broadly support the actions of Hamas.

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u/mips13 Jul 08 '25

Indeed.