The new Israeli Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes report exposes rape, sexual assault, sexual torture, forced nudity, kinocidal abuse, and other war crimes of the most Satanic order — horrors repeated on October 7, 2023, and in the months that followed against Israeli hostages in Gaza. The unavoidable conclusion is that jihadis employed sexual violence as a premeditated and widespread weapon. (Warning: graphic content in this piece.)
"[We saw] a woman with a broken pelvis, with the pelvic bones shattered, as if an enormous amount of force had been used there," recalled Dr. Naama Samet Rubinstein of the Shura Morgue. Raz Cohen, survivor of the massacre at the Nova music festival, remembered, “The men pulled a woman from the vehicle… forcibly removed her clothing, and raped her… they repeatedly stabbed her, killing her… they continued to rape her after her death.”
After more than two years of independent investigation, the Civil Commission has released a comprehensive report documenting sexual and gender-based violence committed by Hamas on October 7 and during hostage captivity.
— The Civil Commission (@theCC07) May 12, 2026
The report is not only a historical record — it is a call… pic.twitter.com/lqzw168Pip
After seeing how terrorists paraded her daughter Shani Louk's body as a trophy for enthusiastic Gazans, Ricarda Louk mourned, "We all saw the horrifying video: you can see a white pickup truck, with about four armed Hamas militants in the back with weapons, and she is lying upside down on the back of the truck, half undressed, twisted, with her head hanging down, and they are pushing her down." These are just a few of the 430+ testimonies that went into the report "Silenced No More."
In a section devoted to hostage testimonies, many of whom the researchers did not name, the Civil Commission exposes how sexual abuse was a constant fact of life for many hostages. One woman said her captors sexually abused her for the entirety of her captivity, and that she tried to commit suicide because of it more than once. One male hostage recalled his abuser tied him to a chair and sexually assaulted him, then later dragged the victim out of the shower and assaulted him even more horribly. The victim tried to remind the jihadi that homosexuality is technically forbidden in Islam, but the man went right on abusing him.
A 19-year-old male hostage described his nightmare: "They abused me because I am Jewish. That’s it. Then they decided to escalate severely, and decided to strip me. They stripped me of everything—clothes, underwear, everything, and tied me up. While I had nothing on. I was torn apart, dying without food. I was praying to God, like, please save me, get me out of this already. And you say to yourself: what the hell is happening? And while this is going on, I’m being whipped too... And I’m mentally broken; I can’t anymore." He said the "sexual violence" went on for three months, on a daily basis, until his body was "collapsing." He said his captors were deliberately humiliating him over and over.
A young woman remembered her first experience in Gaza was at Al-Shifa Hospital — the same hospital that was a Hamas base — where a horde of men stripped her naked and one of them raped her in the shower. A terrorist who forced her to film a propaganda video at the hospital took her home with him and brutally assaulted her multiple times. He would also leer at her and touch her every time she went to the bathroom. After the first night, the abuser told her, "From today on, that’s it, from today you and I sleep mattress next to mattress, right next to each other. When you go to the bathroom, I go with you. Every night I will handcuff you."
Hamas forced sexual torture between family members on Oct. 7, investigation finds: 'You hear the screams and then silence' https://t.co/Yjsfwbgz8V pic.twitter.com/IFDzpUulsB
— New York Post (@nypost) May 12, 2026
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Young Palestinian children are being taught to celebrate terrorists responsible for murdering civilians.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 11, 2026
Instead of protecting childhood innocence and teaching peace, these children are being raised to cherish violence and death. https://t.co/ZE5zrCPHuH
The stories are endless — from survivors, from medical professionals, from morgue employees. Below is a snapshot of the Oct. 7 horrors from the abbreviated version of the report:
Hamas and its collaborators used sexual torture to maximize pain and suffering. Victims endured brutal acts, including burning, mutilation, rape, restraining, forced insertion of objects into the genitalia, shootings to the faces and genital area, killings and abuses in front of family members, and executions. Many victims were found handcuffed, bound, or otherwise physically restrained. Extreme forms of SGBV [sexual and gender-based violence] continued against hostages in captivity for prolonged periods, inflicted on both women and men. Those who survived, and those who witnessed these crimes, suffer severe and enduring physical and psychological injuries. This kind of sexualized torture leaves a distinct and lasting imprint on society, producing a form of terror that extends far beyond the immediate victims and long after the killings themselves.
Hamas and its collaborators inflicted SGBV in multiple locations, employing recurring patterns of abuse. The Civil Commission identified at least thirteen patterns of abuse across multiple sites, including: 1) Rape, gang rape, and other forms of sexual assaults; 2) Sexual torture* , including intentional burning and mutilation; 3) Deliberate shootings to the head, face and genital area; 4) Killings and executions following or committed in conjunction with SGBV; 5) Postmortem sexual abuse, humiliation, and desecration of bodies; 6) Forced nudity and exposure; 7) Handcuffing, binding, and restraint of victims; 8) Public displaying and parading of women and children; 9) Abduction of mothers and children; 10) SGBV inflicted in the presence or near vicinity of family members; 11) Filming and digital dissemination of SGBV, including use of social media to document, glorify, and amplify the atrocities; 12) Threats of forced marriage; 13) Rape and other forms of sexual violence against boys and men.**
And yet despite all these demonic crimes, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians still support jihad, the Palestinian Authority rewarded the Oct. 7 terrorists, and Hamas remains powerful in Gaza, it is Gaza that continues to receive almost all the international aid and sympathy, including from America. How can it be possible that in the face of such atrocities, U.S. taxpayers are now supposed to send $10 billion to reward the very people who cheered on or committed them?
