Israel-Gaza war: Jihad member confesses to rape on October 7th. Terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups from the Gaza Strip killed around 1,140 people and kidnapped another 250 as hostages.

Israel then attacked the Palestinian coastal strip with massive military force in an attempt to crush the Islamist Hamas. A United Nations report considers sexual violence to be likely in the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October7th. There is "legitimate reason to believe" that rapes and gang rapes occurred in at least three places.