Massive investigation confirms sexual assaults on Oct. 7 were planned | Hour 3

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I've tried to edit out the you know, or edit some of the language, and there is there's been a lot of debate about, you know, how much detailed do the Israelis release, how much information, how descriptive photos, videos, all of this stuff, because you don't want to retraumatize the victims, and you know, put this stuff out, especially like videos and images. You know, nobody wants their loved ones battered body to be spread all around the internet and gaukd at. But on the other hand, you have a very real need to tell people and in some cases show people what exactly occurred. Because right after October seventh, when these reports first came in, the initial response was denial, denial that this stuff had occurred. Maybe on a couple of occasions some people got out of hand or whatever. No, now that's what happened. So here's the executive summary. The total report is like three hundred plus pages, I think like three between three and three hundred and fifty pages. And this was done now in advance of. The trials that Israel is going to have to do for the hundreds of Hamas terrorists that they have in custody. They're going to be putting these people on trial, and I've got something on that that's like a whole different set of challenges. So from the executive study or executive summary, rather from the report, it's titled Silenced No More. Following a two year independent investigation, the Civil Commission concludes that sexual and gender based violence was systematic, widespread, and integral to the October seventh attacks and their aftermath. Okay, so this wasn't some sort. Of side project by a couple of fighters, No, no, no, it was systematic, widespread, and integral to the plan. It was part of the plan. Across multiple locations and phases of the assault, including during abduction, transfer and captivity, HAMAS and its collaborators deployed recurring tactics of sexual abuse and torture against victims. These crimes were marked by extreme cruelty and profound human suffering, often inflicted in ways designed to amplify terror and humiliation. This report presents a comprehensive, independent evidentiary record, the most extensive assembled to date of the sexual and gender based crimes committed on October seven and during captivity. The report draws on extensive factual documentation, including original filmed survivor and witness testimonies, interviews, photographs, videos, official records, and other primary materials from the attack sites. The investigation examined materials from multiple locations, including residential communities, the Nova Music Festival, as well as surrounding areas, roads and shelters, military bases, and sites associated with the identification of victim's bodies. It further analyzed testimonies and evidence related to the abduction, transfer, and prolonged captivity of hostages in Gaza. Skipping ahead, The Commission systematically reviewed more than ten thousand photographs and video segments, amounting to well over eighteen hundred cumulative hours of analysis of visuals, alongside extensive testimonial work including the collection, transcription, translation, and cross referencing of survivor and witness accounts, as well as site visits, expert consultations, and meetings with families and affected communities. Overall, the Commission conducted over four hundred and thirty formal and informal interviews, testimonies and meetings with survivors, witnesses, returned hostages, experts, and family members. All materials were logged, coded, and mapped across time and geographic locations, and then integrated into a dedicated database on sexual and gender based crimes, corroborated materials through they corroborated materials through geolocations, supported data sets and interdisciplinary expert input, and carried out its work in accordance with internationally recognized standards, including trauma informed and survivors centered practices and ethical principles guided by the principle of. Do no harm. So it's mainly about the interviews with the survivors and the victims right. The Commission identified thirteen recurring patterns of sexual and gender based violence committed across multiple locations. The repetition of these patterns demonstrates that the crimes were not isolated acts of brutality, but formed part of a broader operational method used during the attack and in the aftermath. The I have the thirteen where it's in here some place. It's a very long executive summary. Here they are Hamas and its collaborators, and they use the abbreviation SGV for the sexual and gender based violence SGBV. So they inflicted SGBV in multiple locations, but using recurring patterns of abuse. They identify thirteen patterns. Number one was rape, gang, rape, and other forms of sexual assaults. Number two sexual torture, including the intentional burning and mutilation. Number three was deliberate shootings to the head, face, and genital areas. Number four killings and executions following or committed in conjunction with SGBV. Post mortem sexual abuse, humiliation and desecration of bodies. Number six, Forced nudity and exposure. Number seven, handcuffing, binding and restraint of victims. Number eight. Publicly displaying and parading of women and children. Number nine. Abduction of mothers and children. Number ten SGBV inflicted in the presence or near vicinity of family members. Number eleven. Filming and digital dissemination of SGBV, including the use of social media to document, glorify, and amplify the atrocities. Number twelve, threats of forced marriage, and number thirteen rape and other forms of sexual violence against boys and men. So those were the thirteen patterns that they identified. The investigation also documents how perpetrators weaponized visibility and digital dissemination as part of the violence itself, including sexualized content. Armed groups recorded acts of abuse and humiliation and killing, and circulated the footage through social media platforms and the victim's own digital accounts. In numerous cases, family members first learned of the fate of their loved ones through images or videos distributed by the perpetrators. The deliberate use of digital media transformed acts of violence into instruments of psychological warfare, directed not only at victims, but also at families and the society at large. 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So when you hear people that want to deflect, they want to do what about ism, which is what Nicholas Christof did in the New York Times that I covered last hour, right, the what about ism, the minimization, or as we saw on the immediate aftermath of October seventh, the outright denial that any of this stuff had even occurred. Okay, and maybe it occurred, but it was just you know, a couple of fighters here or there that did some bad things. As elan Omar might say, No, no, actually, the evidence shows that this was part of the plan. The sexual violence was part of the plan. They had cards with them. Hamas had cards with them with the translations with the Hebrew language of how to tell the victims to, you know, take your clothes off, like they had instructions in Hebrew so they could communicate with the people they were about to abuse. The sexual violence continued beyond the attacks themselves. The report documents testimonies from released hostages and other sources demonstrating how sexual assaults, sexual humiliation, and sexual torture persisted during captivity in Gaza for prolonged periods. In some cases, the sexual and gender based abuse of hostages continued for months. In addition to documenting individual crimes, the report identifies a distinct pattern of violence targeting family members and exploiting familial relationships as instruments of terror. In several documented incidents, victims were sexually assaulted or humiliated in the presence of their relatives, and in one of the documented cases, family members were coerced into participating in acts of abuse against each other. Acts reflect what the Commission characterizes as chinocidal or kindocidal sexual violence, violence deliberately designed to destroy the family as a social and emotional unit by weaponizing the bonds between family members. They go on to say, in this executive summary, our conclusion is unequivocal. Sexual and gender based violence formed a central component of the October seven attack and of hostages captivity. They conclude that these crimes constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts under international law. The report establishes a clear roadmap for the prosecution of the crimes committed on October seventh and against the hostages, they go. On to conclude. It records the voices of survivors and witnesses, It preserves the evidentiary foundations necessary for future prosecutions, and it affirms fundamental principle of international justice that even in the aftermath of the most extreme violence, truth must be documented and the suffering of victims must be acknowledged. Their voices and the record preserved here ensure that they are silenced no more, and that's the name of the report is silenced no More. Hamas used this violence as an inherent part of a wider strategy of attack, primarily targeting women, children, and hostages. This occurred in patterns across multiple sites. It included sexual torture. The acts were repeatedly and similarly committed in private homes, in public spaces at the Nova Music Festival grounds, as well as adjacent areas along the roadside, and in some cases in front of family members. The brutality included burning, mutil aid, rape, restraining, forced insertion of objects, shootings to the faces and genital areas, killings and abuses in front of family members, and executions. Many victims were found handcuffed, bound, or otherwise physically restrained, and these extreme forms of SGBV continued against hostages in captivity for prolonged periods, inflicted on both men and women. Hamas and its collaborators made strategic use of videos, digital and social media to exert and intensify harm and perpetuate, glorify, and amplify the atrocities they committed. They filmed themselves in circulated images and videos during attacks, including assaulting, humiliating, abducting, killing women, children, and entire families, and then desecrating their bodies. They presented women and their bodies as trophies of war. Some video show militants and gossen civilians celebrating over abused bodies. There's one famous clip of the the YouTube influencer whose body was driven through the streets and everybody was celebrating. Footage also depicts burned bodies, including focused burning in the genital areas or of naked bodies. Hamas and its collaborators further circulated footage of injured women and girls, elderly women being violently humiliated and abducted. Many of these victims were taken in their sleepwear due to the early morning timing of the attack, further heightening their vulnerability. Hamas and its collaborators systematically staged, produced, and disseminated videos of hostages during captivity, as well taunting or humiliating their victims and then sending those videos to their families. Again, this was all part of their operation. A couple of a couple of text messages here. This is from Kevin, who says Pete great commentary on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. As usual, truly horrible things Hamas did to hundreds of Israelis on and after October seventh. However, these things pale in comparison. I would disagree with this. I believe they are all of equal barbarity. These things pale in comparison to things happening in other parts of the world even today to millions, Yet you and the rest of the legacy media doesn't even give it a more than a passing word of mention. I believe this is going down the path of the Christians being slaughtered by Muslims in Africa for example, which I have actually covered. I had Raymond Ibrahim on the program going over the data, breaking down the data points. But I guess you missed that episode. You can go back and find it. Kevin on the podcast the peapod dot Com for example, look at what is happening in Sudan and the DRC. The saf will go from door to door, dragging families out of their homes, do horrible things to the children in front of the parents, then torture and kill everyone one, videotaping and laughing about the whole thing. Then send these videos to each other for everyone to quote unquote and enjoy. These people are monsters, and the rest of the world just looks the other way. Yeah. Part of the problem, as Raymond Ibraheim talked about, is that data collection and trying to figure out what actually occurred is very difficult. In some of these less developed nations. They don't have the police force, they don't have the investigative bodies, right, they don't have the media. They just don't have mechanisms that in the Western world we enjoy. That's a limitation. Now, there are nonprofits that do cover and they do counts and stuff like that of for example, the attacks by Muslims on Christians in various countries. There are some that do track this stuff. Raymond talked about it on the show. They put out, Well, Raymond was doing like a monthly count. He had been doing it for years, and. You know, he talked about the number of churches that have been desecrated, burned, attacked, number of Christians that have been you know, attacked and murdered, taken hostage. And all of this. And you know, in one of the cases, it's being described in the legacy media outlets as a it's a you know, some like her herdsman versus villagers or something like that, and that's not the case. The it's the the Muslims versus the Christians. The Christians have set up their villages, and they make it sound like it's over grazing rights or something, and it's not because if it's over grazing rights, like why are you desecrating crosses and churches. Right, No, it's it's it's jihad. That's what this is. This is what it's been for fourteen hundred years. I think I've been pretty clear, and I think I've meant met this global jihad and the history. I'm pretty sure I've talked about that at length. This is just another example of it what occurred in Israel, and then surely the lefty here because whenever something like this comes up, and I understand, the natural tendency is to turn away from these things. In fact, I got a message from Eddie who said, pretty boring content. I already dislike Muslim so I will turn the channel. And I wrote him back and I said, bye. I mean, you can call this report and this information. You can call it a lot of things. I'm not sure boring would be one of them. And if you're using that words, it seems kind of like a minimization of the horrors that people went through. And I kind of feel like you're whistling past the graveyard. If you think this kind of thing can't happen elsewhere, as Kevin just pointed out, it is happening elsewhere. It's happening all over the place, so. Not sure boring, But look, if you don't want you don't want to hear this stuff, you want to keep ignoring the atrocities, you don't want the information, Totally fine. I told people, tune out. If you can't handle this stuff, you don't want to hear this, tune out. You will not offend me. I just feel like this is more important to bring this information out so people who want to know and should know. I do believe people should know this. That's why I pick topics. The way I do is sometimes like the information. Like you notice, I don't do a lot of zany wacky topics here. I do things that I think people should be aware of. And so when you encounter some hamas hole a some tentifot a member at your next family gathering or something, or in the workplace and they say something like oh you know, oh you know the hummas rapes and mass rapes that didn't happen, you can say, actually it did. A two year investigation proved that it was actually part of the operation. So back to Shirley the lefty, as I call her on the text line, we can't police the world, okay, am I saying that we should police the world. Is that what you got from the documentation of the atrocities. But again, I understand why people who have found themselves in the company of jihadists and apologists for Hamas. I understand why this is uncomfortable for you. I do like you thought this was a press or oppressed you know, Marxist Heygeian kind of framework that you were looking at this through, and this kind of blows that up. So now you're probably encountering something called cognitive dissonance. I understand it can be uncomfortable. There's abuse in lots of countries. Trump said he don't care if we pay high prices. We don't care about what you're talking about. She doesn't care about mass rapes, she doesn't care about the mutilation of children. That she doesn't care as long as her gas prices are low. And that's not actually the case either, because Shirley would have been saying back in what twenty twenty two that five dollars ten dollars five ye five dollars ten cent to gallon gas was perfectly fine and reasonable and understandable under Joe Biden. It's only a problem now that it hit four h five under Trump, because Shirley just hates Donald Trump and can't view anything else through the prism of Donald Trump. And then she goes off on some tirade about mom Donnie balancing the budget, which, yeah, he got to bail out from the state and he rated the pension fund. Fantastic work there, Shirley. Yeah, that's how you balance a budget. You take the state employee of the city employee's pensions. That's that's a great example. Great example, Shirley. This is what I mean. This is just deflection. They don't I want to hear the details. I don't want to know about these things because it makes me uncomfortable and it challenges what I already believe, and I believe it so much so I can't hear these things because God forbid. You entertain the possibility that haw Maas was actually the evil party, that they were the oppressors, not the oppressed, That maybe fourteen hundred years of colonizing through the sword, maybe that might be the oppressive colonizing entity. Maybe this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It's got even nothing to do with the Iran War for that matter. But you want to argue whatever you want to argue because you don't want to listen to facts, you don't want to listen to truth. From the text line again seven oh four. Sorry, this is a oh, this is Lisa. Thank you for covering the atrocities of October seventh and the articles trying to minimize what happened. The rise of anti Semitism is terrifying and horrific. Thanks for shedding light on it. You're welcome, Lisa. That's h and that is why I do this like that's it is to highlight this issue and to inform people so they have an understanding of the world around them and what is actually true. This is Scott who says, I believe Hamas committed these atrocities to cause Israel to respond very hard, hard enough that other Arab countries would join the war. That is actually true. We do know that now they were hoping to get the reaction would prompt Hesbalah and to iron To and the Houtis to join in the fight. Iran was slow walking in Iran wasn't like because they had talked before and I think I covered this the other day, maybe last week, that the that it was Hamas yah yah sinwar that they wanted to do a whole coordinated you know, ring of fire. That was the strategy that Iran set up to you know, attack Israel, surround them with a ring of fire and uh and and obliterate the entire country and all of the people. Right. And so Hamas wanted to move at an earlier date, and then that got pushed back based on I forget what. And so when they launched, they were anticipating Hezballah and Iran would basically be dragged into it. But Iran, Iran did not, hes Blah did not, so they were left on their own. Scott goes on to say this Hamas believed would trigger a world war and the return of the Makhti. Yes, the twelfth would rise from the well. Dennis says, Pete, you are spot on. People need to know these acts again, these acts against humanity. Nine nine number says, bring back the Crusades. I'm not advocating that. Now. There is another development related to this Civil Commission report, which is that Israeli security forces actually captured around three hundred people that were part of the October seventh attack in the week after the invasion. On Monday, the Israeli Parliament, the Kanesset passed a law which will establish a special tribunal to try the October seven terrorists for their crimes committed during the assault, specifically including sexual crimes among the other alleged war crime committed on that day. That from the Times of Israel I Meet Siegel in his newsletter called It's Noon in Israel earlier this month, he wrote about the difficulty in creating this tribunal, like, there are a lot of questions they had to kind of settle as they were drafting this legislation and setting this process up, like how public should the proceedings be, Like what standard of evidence should be required? And what punishment is appropriate? And you can look at historical examples. You know Nuremberg obviously, but Nuremberg, those trials prosecuted just twenty four people. Here, you've got three hundred to three hundred and fifty. So the first thing they had to do with who would preside over it? Is this a civilian court? But the court system was like, we can't handle this many trials. It would overwhelm us and we don't have the personnel. So they said, okay, we'll do it in the military court. Even though the was like we don't want to touch any of this, but that's where it got put. They decided where it's going to be in Jerusalem. They transformed a massive industrial site into a sprawling judicial complex, and then it's like, okay, well, how much do we air? How much is going to be made publicly available? They're going to do like a live stream, but it's going to be like a filtered live stream, so this way things won't be automatically live. So I guess it's a recorded stream, I guess, and they'll kind of release it after they take out certain parts, which, of course, will you know, prompt allegations of censorship. I'm sure who's going to represent these people? Nobody would represent what Eikman. Nobody would represent him, So what do you do? They're going to have to find lawyers, public defender's office, you know, we'll have to find people in order to give them their legal counsel. So this is a to be something that we have never seen before. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the. Show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them. Too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecalnarshow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.