Friday is International Women’s Day and Israel is pushing for the U.N. to recognize the atrocities Hamas committed against Israeli women on October 7th, and those still being committed against more than a dozen Israeli women still held in Hamas captivity in Gaza.
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz posted on X, “The US, UK, and France back my call for a UN Security Council session on Hamas’s sexual violence. On International Women’s Day, the UN and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres must act, not be silent. Time to declare Hamas a terror group and call for the release of all hostages.”
Today is #InternationalWomensDay
These are the faces of Israeli women who have endured torture, starvation, physical and psychological abuse, and sexual violence.
You cannot claim to stand for women’s rights if you aren’t joining the fight to bring these women home.… pic.twitter.com/7oQyXE8nWH
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 8, 2024
From the first days after Hamas’ October 7 massacre, experts in the field of sexual crimes and abuse knew that Hamas had gone way beyond murdering people to systematic disfigurement, mutilation, and burning of bodies and sexual crimes that couldn’t even be described. But much of the world chose to ignore it and refused
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