The umbrella organization’s research finds “identical patterns” of sexual abuse at many sites.
These were said to involve “collectively” or “in front of an audience” violent rapes of women.
During the attacks, Hamas has denied that its fighters sexually abused women.
On October 7, hundreds of members of the Palestinian armed group broke into southern Israel, where they executed over 1,200 victims and kidnapped 253 more.
Soon after October 7th, reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas—which Israel, the UK, and other countries have designated as a terrorist organization—started to surface, and they have continued to mount ever since.
Last month, a senior Israeli police officer testified before British MPs that there was “clear evidence” of sexual crimes committed on a scale that qualified them as crimes against humanity. This evidence came from forensic investigations and hundreds of testimonies from witnesses and first responders.
