Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7 gave rise to systematic and premeditated sexual violence. Israeli officials have accused Hamas of having increased sexual assaults there.
The lack of direct and public accounts from survivors and the absence of forensic expertise has not yet made it possible to draw a clear picture of these abuses and their scale. A survivor of the Nova festival attack describes "an apocalypse of corpses, of naked girls, sometimes on the upper body,sometimes on the bottom". In Kibbutz Beeri, where 90 residents were killed, rescuers said they found "bodies showing signs of sexual attacks"