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The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.

WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I call bullshit, whoever wrote this piece without questioning the validity of the witness statements needs to go back to school for journalism. Some of these claims are transparently fallacious to anyone with any medical training.

Random volunteers aren't going to be able to examine victims for sexual assault based on bruising, or lacerations found while collecting bodies. That's going to require an actual autopsy by an actual medical examiner. Also, how is a volunteer going to inspect if a body has a pelvic fracture, and what does that have to do with sexual assault? Sacral fractures are only associated with SA for a very young child, and then only at 5% of SA victims age 5 or younger.

I found it odd that they published claims from volunteers and politicians, but I have yet to hear from an actual MD that corroborates their claims.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

You’re getting downvoted but the piece states “The BBC could not independently verify this account.”

One of the quotes is someone saying they didn’t see the violent attack but sexual assault just sounds different.

Any reasonable person can agree that Hamas is not good, we don’t need propaganda making them appear like complete monsters.