October 7 attacks in Israel: report denounces systematic sexual violence. “Rapes, many of them in meetings” Eyewitness accounts of sexual violence proliferated in the media after October 7.
These accusations are the subject of complex investigations in Israel, made difficult by the absence of a post-mortem examination in the chaos of the days following the attack. Unicef condemned the "sexual violence committed against Israeli women on October 7, but Israel considered it late and insufficient because it did not mention their perpetrators, namely the armed men of Hamas"