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"Inside the 300-page report Hamas hoped no one would uncover
Almost three years after October 7, a new 300-page report lays out
evidence of systematic sexual violence by Hamas."

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"More than two and a half years after HamasAs October 7 attack on Israel,
a specially appointed Civil Commission on Crimes by Hamas against Women
and Children published on Tuesday the most comprehensive report to date documenting the terror groupAs systematic use of sexual violence, rape,
and okinocideo during the assault.

Among the key findings of the 300-page report are examples of gang-rape, sexual violence to terrorize families, and even some cases where
relatives and victims were forced to perform sexual acts on each other.

oI see this report as a watershed moment, a moment of before and after, because once it is released, it will no longer be a question of whether
this happened, but of what the consequences are,o Cochav Elkayam-Levy,
chair of the commission, told The Jerusalem Post in a special interview
ahead of the reportAs release.

She said that her team, composed of lawyers, researchers, and medical and forensic professionals, worked tirelessly to oensure that they [the
victims] will be questioned no more, that they will be silenced no more.o

Titled Silenced No More, the report, which will form the basis of a
historical archive of images and testimonies of the brutal offensive,
comes amid ongoing denial or downplaying by top human rights and womenAs rights officials and activists, who continue to refute that Hamas
terrorists carried out a well-planned and systematic attack, using sexual violence to terrorize their victims.

Hamas terrorists gather during a public event in Khan Younis, Gaza, on February 1, 2025.
Hamas terrorists gather during a public event in Khan Younis, Gaza, on February 1, 2025. (credit: MOIZ SALHI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty
Images)
oThey filmed the victims to make sure that the world knew what was
happening,o noted Elkayam-Levy, pointing out that the digital
documentation shared by the terrorists themselves on October 7, forms the basis of the report.

oWe felt deeply obligated to expose everything,o she said. oThis was
sexual terror in the most exceptional cruelty, and I think one important aspect of it was the digital documentation, the fact that the crimes were glorified.o

Elkayam-Levy points to the video of 22-year-old Shani Louk, who was
kidnapped from the Nova Festival, lying semi-naked and twisted on the
flatbed of a pick-up truck surrounded by armed terrorists beating and
spitting on her dead body as one example.

Yet, despite such early evidence, as well as compelling testimonies from eye-witnesses and first responders, many so-called professionals around
the world refused to recognize that sexual violence had taken place or
that it had been used as a tool of terror.

oThat was the moment that broke us all,o Elkayam-Levy said. oIt wasnAt
just denied by social media trolls. It was denied by people like
Professor Judith Butler, who said, aIAm not sure; I havenAt seen the
evidence of the rape.A When is a rape victim ever questioned in that way
by a feminist scholar? When do we ever ask, aI havenAt seen the evidence
of your rape?Ao

'Sexual violence is always the most denied crime'
Elkayam-Levy admitted that osexual violence is always the most denied
crimea but [in this instance] we saw another level of denial by those who
are supposed to believe, and that made us understand that we have to
create something completely different.o

The legal scholar and human rights advocate said that the commission has worked to make sure to collect and document all the materials oin the
most meticulous way.o

oWe used reports that were written previously [for guidance] for
reference on how to show the evidence we had accumulation and we put everything together, archived and preserved each and every piece of information, in such a way that those crimes will never be denied,o she
said.

oWe cannot start fighting this [denial] if we donAt expose what
happened,o said Elkayam-Levy, adding that among the most disturbing
findings were cases where ofamily members were sexually abused or
threatened in front of one anothera forced to commit sexual acts on each other.o

Alongside the systematic sexual violence that became painfully apparent through their research, the civil commission experts also coined a
totally new concept: kinocide.

Elkayam-Levy describes it as the osystematic torture and violence against familiesa kin, as a familial relation, and cide, as in the systematicity
of it.o

oWhile we were looking and analyzing the videos, we started seeing the pattern,o she said. oYou start seeing videos of families and the moments
when the terrorists entered the housesa sometimes, they took the phones
of the victim themselves and started broadcasting their torturea when you
see the father or the mother devastated, screaming, the children
screaming or begging for their life a these moments made us understand
that weAre seeing something that needs to be defined.o

After recognizing this phenomenon, Elkayam-Levy said she began calling
other legal experts and scholars around the world to ask them if a term
for this kind of torture already existed. She found that, while it had
taken place in multiple other conflict zones, including by the Islamic
State against the Yazidi population in Iraq and Syria, no formal
definition of such terror existed.

Labeling such crimes, she explained, has helped the victims, not just in Israel, to find the right language to express themselves.

oWeAre now actually helping them as expert witnesses in cases being
litigated here in Israel for the families themselves to be recognized as victims of terror, because this was a unique terror targeting families,o Elkayam-Levy said.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that systematic sexual violence, rape,
and kinocide took place on October 7, Elkayam-Levy said there continues
to be denial, including from some officials in the United Nations, who
refuse to accept that such atrocities took place.

She believes that such denials have helped to fuel antisemitism globally
but, she said, she is hopeful that exposing these crimes will aid in supporting victims of rape everywhere, who, even in 2026, are not automatically believed.

Elkayam-Levy also said it was such denials that allowed the Civil
Commission to keep on going even as it uncovered some extremely gruesome
and disturbing testimonies, including from those who were kidnapped and
held hostage for many months.

oThe fact that scholars continue to cast doubt and say, ashow me the evidence,A is why we continued collecting the testimonies and creating an archive of what happened under the most compelling international
standards,o she said, adding that their goal was to make sure that oit
cannot be denied anymore.o

oWe cannot prevent what is not known, right?o Elkayam-Levy said. oWe
cannot even begin to prevent future atrocities if we ignore the truth of
what happened, if we donAt know what was the nature and dynamics of these crimes.o

Elkayam-Levy is hopeful that the report u with its comprehensive,
meticulously documented archive u will be adopted and used by
international organizations and parliaments around the world to recognize
the extent of HamasAs crimes on October 7, and in the two years
afterwards, while the hostages were in Gaza.

oWhat we want to see is formal recognition and adoption of the report and
its findings,o she said, adding that owe are saving our energy now for
that battle now.o"
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