A new Israeli report alleging that Hamas used sexual violence as a 鈥渨eapon of war鈥 during the 7 October attacks is facing renewed scrutiny after a senior United Nations official said there is no independent evidence for the Israeli claim. 鈥淚t is my understanding that neither the [UN] Commission nor any other independent human rights mechanism established that sexual or gender-based violence was committed against Israelis on or since the 7 October as a systematic tool of war or as a tool of genocide,鈥 said Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, in a statement. ender experts under the Dinah Project, which claims that sexual violence was a coordinated tactic used by Hamas during its […]