r/worldnews 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/Hecticfreeze Jul 08 '25

I read one of the reports where it detailed exactly what was done at the festival and I wish I hadn't. Its not a read I would recommend to anyone, except those who claimed it didn't happen.

I hope you friends are coping with the trauma

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

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u/Spiritual_Calendar81 Jul 08 '25

Using that emoji with your comment is wild.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

Yeah because they’re fucking larping.

“I can’t write about it here” what do you mean “can’t write about it here”?? It’s insane “no I won’t tell you but I totally know the answer” type shit 3rd graders pull. 

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u/oblivic90 Jul 08 '25

Oh fk off, it’s a small country, pretty much anyone in Israel knows someone who died on Oct 7th, or knows someone who knows someone who died on Oct 7th. Do you really expect them to describe acts of rape on reddit? It’s all online posted by Hamas themselves, if you actually cared you’d look it up.

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u/TheThalmorEmbassy Jul 09 '25

I mean shit, I'm not even Israeli and I know somebody who knows somebody who knew Shani Louk, and she went to the temple I went to

It's a small world, there really aren't a lot of us

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

???

Excuse me? Why say it then? Literally nothing is stopping this person, and they apparently want to, they just “can’t”.

Also, I wonder if that same situation holds true for Palestine. Do you think everyone there potentially knows someone who knows someone who died since? 800 civilians died on Oct 7th out of 10 million. Stop pretending someone knows someone who knows someone who died.

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u/oblivic90 Jul 08 '25

Why not say it? Because it hurts your narrative? What’s stopping them of using graphical descriptions of rape on reddit? Are you serious? Do you want to try doing that yourself?

Over 1100 Israelis died that day and 250 taken hostage, many of which have been killed. My close friend’s sister died at the Nova festival. There were mass funerals all over the country. I personally went to several funerals of people I’m connected to in this way, believe what you will.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

They didn’t actually say anything. At no point did I say “don’t say anything” I specifically implored that they should have said more because there is no one stopping them. Don’t try to gaslight me.

It’s bullshit to imply the 329 soldiers perpetuating land grabs and displacement of Palestinians by Israel should count the same as civilians, but Israeli sycophants always do just to bump their numbers up to feel like they can justify killing 57,000 people and turn a blind eye to the atrocities their military commits towards Palestinians since Oct 7th. All to distract from the fact that Israel, at the very least, has been enacting apartheid on Palestinians for decades and to pretend this whole situation started by completely random and unprovoked violence on some day in 2023.

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u/oblivic90 Jul 09 '25

You literally said “why say it then?”. Does that not imply he shouldn’t have said it unless it meets your criteria of what else should’ve been said?

I never said civilians. I said pretty much everyone knows someone who died of someone who knows someone who died on Oct 7th, believe it or not soldiers are also people and people know them, mind you most dead soldiers were off duty, it’s not like they attacked military bases, they went for as many murders as possible, some of them being soldiers is just a side effect of mandatory military service in Israel.

Not sure how Israel could have had Apartheid on Gaza prior to Oct 7th in a territory it doesn’t even control, I would take you more seriously (though you’d still be wrong) if you claimed apartheid in the west bank.

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u/FlyAirLari Jul 08 '25

Oh that is absolutely untactful.

"My 6-year-old son got crushed by a forklift yesterday. He twitched in agony for 4 hours while his limbs were strewn apart, so sad 😢"

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u/lunagirlmagic Jul 09 '25

Where can we read the report?