Full depravity of Hamas’ sexual brutality laid bare in damning new Oct. 7 report: ‘It was done for fun’

Nypost · May 13, 2026 · 952 words · By Alex Oliveira

Victim Testimony Hamas Atrocities War Crimes and Sexual Violence

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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Survivors of the 2023 massacre that left nearly 2,000 dead in Israel”

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Multiple independent sources, including Nypost and Wikipedia, confirm the October 7 attacks and the scale of casualties (nearly 2,000 dead).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…

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“the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, an Israeli non-profit that spent two years investigating sexual abuses committed that fateful day”

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Wikipedia explicitly identifies 'The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women, Children and Families' as an Israeli non-profit founded in late 2023 to research and archive material relating to Hamas crimes.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Civil Commission (formally: The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women, Children and Families) is an Israeli non-profit organization founded in late 2023. It collects, resea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_Commission

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during the Eisenhower admini…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Ci…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — War crimes in the Syrian civil war have been numerous and serious. A United Nations report published in August 2014 stated that "the conduct of the warring parties in the Syrian Arab Republic has caus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Syrian_civil…

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“More than 430 people were interviewed during the investigation and thousands of images were examined”

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Multiple web search results specifically mention that the report is based on 430 interviews and over 10,000 photos and videos.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes

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“the report finding widespread weaponization of sexual terror by Hamas”

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Multiple sources confirm the commission's report concluded that Hamas used sexual violence/terror as a weapon and that these acts constitute war crimes.

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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas has denied allegations of sexual violence by its members during the October 7 attack, despite documentation cited or reflected in the report from Israeli officials, international bodies, journal…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-895838

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web search NEUTRAL — The commission concluded that the acts documented constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts under international law. It has been recommended that Israeli authorities prosecute…
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/silenced-no-more-rep…

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web search NEUTRAL — On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants infiltrated Be'eri kibbutz. It was one of many coordinated attacks across Israel that began the Israel-Hamas war — and a delayed response by the Israeli defence for…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/hamas-systematically-…

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“One of the most egregious was an instance of family members being forced to perform sexual acts on each other.”

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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the report documents cases where family members were coerced into performing sexual acts on one another.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli Report Examines Sexual Violence During and After Hamas-Led Attack.In at least one case, according to the report, family members were coerced into acts of sexual violence against one another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/world/middleeast/israel-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — An Israeli inquiry details widespread sexual violence by Hamas during October 7 attacksThe 300-page report is based on 430 interviews and over 10,000 photos and videosRelatives held together were alle…
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hamas-forced-captives-from-i…

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“Women were largely targeted, but men were also subjected to sexual terror.”

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Web search results confirm that both women and men were subjected to sexual assault during the attacks and in captivity.

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web search NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

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web search NEUTRAL — Homes destroyed during the October 7 Hamas attacks against Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. The team has spent more than two years painstakingly gathering, review…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/middleeast/report-sexual-viol…

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web search NEUTRAL — Both women and men were subject to sexual assault, both on October 7 and in captivity. One hostage from the Nova festival, Romi Gonen, remembered being taken to the Shifa Hospital, where she was held …
https://www.thejc.com/news/it-devastates-us-families-of-octo…

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“Kibbutz homes were found with similar scenes of sexual abuse, with the naked bodies of women — often mutilated, with genitalia burned off, shot, or raped with sharp objects like nails and glass”

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Web search results describe emergency medical technicians finding bodies in kibbutzim with signs of sexual assault and mutilation.

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web search NEUTRAL — Volunteer emergency medical technicians described discovering bodies with signs of sexual assault at the rave site and in kibbutzim, regretting their inability to document more due to religious rules …
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/naked-bodies-face-burned-rep…

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web search NEUTRAL — The systematic sexual violence against Israeli women and girls by the jihadists of Hamas during and after their murderous jihad on October 7th is horrendously vile and heinous to the most evil extent …
https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-hamas-did-to-the-girls-and…

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“hostages taken into Gaza also endured rape, with women recounting being assaulted by their captors”

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Multiple sources report that female hostages in Gaza recounted experiencing sexual violence and rape by their captors.

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web search NEUTRAL — Hostages that returned alive recounted severe mistreatment in Gaza, including sexual assault, physical and psychological torture and terrible conditions. Some of the most disturbing experiences hostag…
https://aijac.org.au/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-recently-release…

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web search NEUTRAL — Thirteen women and two men who survived captivity by Hamas said they experienced or witnessed sexual violence while held hostage in Gaza, according to a new report by a group of Israeli ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/middleeast/hostages-gaza-sexu…

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web search NEUTRAL — 15 hostages break silence on horrific sexual violence in Gaza captivity A comprehensive new investigation has uncovered systematic sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 …
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/07/06/15-hostages-break-sil…

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“men were routinely forced to strip naked and shave all the hair from their bodies [in Gaza]”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the specific claim regarding male hostages being forced to shave all body hair.

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