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The “Picture of the Year” That Violates the Humanity of Its Subject: We shouldn’t see Shani Louk like this (Slate, 4/11/24)
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza (New York Times, 3/26/24)
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict: Mission Report: Official Visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the Occupied West Bank (29 January – 14 February 2024)
Silent Cry: Sexual Crimes in the October 7 War — Special Report of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (Association of Rape Crisis Center in Israel, 2/21/24)
She Asked For It: Hamas, Weaponized Rape, and Reversing Years of Progress For Victims of Sexual Violence (Washington Monthly, 1/10/24)
‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 (New York Times, 12/28/23)
I Saw the Children Hamas Beheaded With My Own Eyes. Shame on Queen Rania (Newsweek, 12/26/23)
Denying the gender-based violence of Oct. 7 helps no one (New York Times, 12/13/23)
Opinion: After my grandmother’s ordeal in the Holocaust, I have to speak out against sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 (CNN, 12/11/23)
How Hamas used sexual violence on October 7th: Physicians for human rights Israel issued a report collecting evidence of sexual and gender-based violence. One of its authors lays out their findings. (New Yorker, 12/10/23)
Their bodies tell their stories. They’re not alive to speak for themselves. (NBC News, 12/05/23)
Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears (BBC, 12/05/23)
Accounts of sexual violence by Hamas are aired amid criticism of U.N. (New York Times, 12/04/23)
Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves (The Guardian, 12/01/23)
The world’s feminists need to show up for Israeli victims (Slate, 11/30/23)
Israel investigates an elusive, horrific enemy: Rape as a weapon of war (Washington Post, 11/25/23)
Israel shares raw footage of the Oct. 7 attacks (New York Times, 10/23/23)
Israeli forensic teams describe signs of torture, abuse (Reuters, 10/15/23)