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@Lapdog....this is a HRW report about the depraved and worse-than-anilmalistic crimes committed by the Hamas terrorists whose words you greedily ingurgitate and repeat as if they were independent-verified facts:

Hamas-led terrorists systematically committed hundreds of war crimes on Oct. 7 — in-depth HRW report

By AGENCIES

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists are seen on their way to cross the Israel-Gaza border fence from Khan Younis during the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib/ AFP/ File)

Hamas led other Palestinian armed groups in committing hundreds of war crimes in the October 7 onslaught on Israel that set off the war in Gaza, Human Rights Watch says in a new, comprehensive report.

One of the most in-depth international studies on the unprecedented incursion into southern Israel outlines a host of potential war crimes cases during the attack, which killed some 1,200 people and resulted in 251 people taken hostages, most of them civilians.

“It’s impossible for us to put a number on the specific instances [of war crimes],” HRW associate director Belkis Wille tells a news conference, adding that “there were obviously hundreds on that day.”

The crimes include “deliberate and indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian objects; wilful killing of persons in custody; cruel and other inhumane treatment; sexual and gender-based violence; hostage taking; mutilation and despoiling (robbing) of bodies; use of human shields; and pillage and looting,” says the report.

Although Palestinian terror group Hamas is recognized as the orchestrator of the attack, the report lists other armed groups that committed war crimes on October 7, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Wille points to the “incredibly organized and coordinated nature” of the assault on cities, kibbutz communities, music festivals and military bases around Gaza.

“Across many attack sites, fighters fired directly at civilians, often at close range, as they tried to flee, and at people who happened to be driving vehicles in the area,” says the report. “They hurled grenades and shot into safe rooms and other shelters and fired rocket-propelled grenades at homes. They set some houses on fire, burning and suffocating people to death, and forcing out others who they then captured or killed.”

HRW says it “found evidence of acts of sexual and gender-based violence by fighters including forced nudity, and the posting without consent of sexualized images on social media.”

The report quotes a team of the UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict who say they interviewed people “who reported witnessing rape and other sexual violence” including “rape and gang rape, in at least three locations.”

But it says the full extent of sexual and gender-based violence “will likely never be fully known” as victims have died, or stigma will stop them from talking out, or Israeli first responders “largely” did not collect relevant evidence in real time amid the chaos of that day.

In a nine-page response to the HRW report, Hamas says its Qassam Brigades planned and led the October 7 attack, not the Hamas political movement, and that fighters were instructed not to target civilians.

HRW says it has found the Hamas response “false” and that “the intentional killing and hostage-taking of civilians was planned and highly coordinated.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-17-2024/