When Hamas launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood on October 7, "Israel" fabricated claims of Resistance fighters sexually assaulting Israeli women at the site of the music festival to hoard international support for its genocide.
Since then, the occupation's disturbing attempt to publicly scrutinize the Resistance byfalsely accusing its fighters raping settler womenhas been debunked multiple times.
"Israel's" allegations heavily relied on testimonies brought forth by ZAKA, an Israeli rescue group that submitted a report to the UN regarding the false rape accusations from October 7. It was then revealed that ZAKA's founder himself, Meshi-Zahav, was convicted of rape and of exploiting his power to sexually assault young girls.
TheAssociated Press, in this context, examined the testimonies of two ZAKA volunteers and found that they have been misleading the global public into thinking Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis on October 7.
False testimonies
APrelayed the testimony of Chaim Otmazgin, a ZAKA volunteer who collected bodies after the operation. Otmazgin's testimony relied on an "interpretation of sexual abuse" rather than evidence.
Reportedly, Otmazgin found the body of an Israeli teenager, but her pants were pulled down, and automatically assumed that she was raped. When he told lawmakers and reporters about what he had seen, he asked for their interpretations. However, the volunteer now claims he never said she was sexually assaulted, althoughAPfound that his testimony greatly alluded to that.
Three months after the testimony, ZAKA reported that Otmazgin's interpretation was wrong, and found that a group of Israeli soldiers "had dragged the girl’s body across the room to make sure she was not booby-trapped", which is why her pants were down.
Another testimony came from Yossi Landau, who claimed he saw a pregnant woman whose fetus was still attached to her umbilical cord, but outside her body. Landau reportedly called Otmazgin at the sight, but the latter negated his testimony himself.
