Entitled “The silence of international organizations on mass rape Hamas it is a betrayal of all women,” Michal HerzogThe wife of Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, expressed her opinion on the non-response of international bodies after the pogrom that Israel suffered on October 7 at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
In the article published by Newsweek on November 22, 2023, Michal Herzog says she met Rotem, a young mother of two small children from a kibbutz on the Gaza border, two days after the horrific Hamas attack and was amazed at what the woman said , how she managed to hide with her children while terrorists rampaged through her home. How they had managed to get to the safe room and desperately pray that I Terrorists they didn’t happen.
But that’s not all, in the article there is the story of it abused women, not from an abusive husband, but from a terrorist storm. But Rotem was not the only victim, thousands of Israeli women suffered simultaneous murder and rape at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
In her article, the First Lady says that on the occasion of the International Day for the Prevention of Violence Against Women, celebrated every year on November 25, she hosts at her residence many civil society leaders, activists and academics who support the rights and Women’s Safety Women, but that everything will be different this year because a lot of things have changed since October 7th.
Families destroyed, children perhaps burned alive, and hostages. And all of this has had a profound impact on our profound understanding of cruelty sexual violence especially and above all, trust in international organizations that claim to care about women.
“It took me several days to understand it monstrous nature and the level of violence that women in particular were subjected to on October 7th. The first thing I understood was when I met volunteers from the Association of Rape Crisis Centers who discreetly told me about their conversations with survivors. They heard testimonies that shocked them deeply. At the Nova music festival, where more than 350 young people were massacred and dozens were kidnapped, witnesses saw terrorists hiding in the bushes Gang rape, then kill and mutilate the women. A Hamas video shows terrorists torturing a pregnant woman and removing her fetus. Our forensic scientists found bodies of women and girls who had been raped so brutally that their pelvic bones were broken. Those of us who were unfortunate enough to see the video evidence they broadcast Terrorists They saw the body of a naked woman paraded through Gaza and another, still alive, woman with bloody pants held captive at gunpoint and dragged by her hair into a jeep. “This evidence, along with the recorded explicit confessions of the captured terrorists, makes it clear that the mass rape was a deliberate part of Hamas’ plan.”
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But what Michal Herzog What he cannot digest is the lack of reaction from international organizations, which have apparently lost their right to have a say in this case. “There are 240 hostages being held in Gaza, there are many women and girls, and only when they are released will we know what they have suffered. And this crime continues. International authorities and legal experts have finally begun to consider violence against women as a special category of war crimes. Organizations like UN Women exist to protect women from such crimes, while Israeli experts and activists have been involved in these international efforts. We therefore consider it unimaginable and unforgivable the silence of these organizations in light of the rape and murder of Israeli women.”
That is not everything. In their opinion, the attention given to Israeli children also left much to be desired.
“The parents and relatives of the children kidnapped on October 7, together with the families of the hostages and their supporters, demonstrated in front of the headquarters of theUNICEF to protest the silence of 40 children held hostage in Gaza on World Children’s Day on November 20, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.”
And he added a detail that will remain forever an indelible stain at those organizations that in this case pretended not to look. “It is not that Hamas’s condemnation of gender-based violence was weak or insufficient, there was none at all. Organizations such as UN Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have failed to condemn these crimes. They have failed us and all women at this critical time.”
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Click on the photo: Subscribe to the WhatsApp channelThe president’s wife also added that as a wife and mother, her heart goes out to the women and children in Gaza who are suffering the consequences of the war started by Hamas. Who believes they deserve help and support? But that doesn’t mean eradicating the atrocities they commit Palestinian terrorists on October 7th. But the silence of international human rights organizations and the reluctance to believe Israeli women in the face of overwhelming evidence has been devastating. For Israelis, who have always been at the forefront of the fight for women’s rights around the world, this was a moment of bitter disappointment.
This was confirmed by Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, one of the most important advocates of women’s rights: “I knew that it would be difficult to convince the women’s rights committee United Nations, contacted by video conference from Harvard Medical School to make a reasonable statement, but I never imagined that in the face of such undeniable atrocities and in view of the very purpose for which they were founded, they would not recognize them at all. Ignoring the unprecedented, deliberate and extreme cruelty of the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas fails not only Israeli women, but the entire international human rights system.”
In any case Michal Herzog concluded its article by noting that to mark this year’s International Day for the Prevention of Violence Against Women, Israeli women – Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze – will gather at the presidential residence in Jerusalem. “We will meet to discuss the ongoing violation of women’s rights, with the deep feeling that all of us who believe in these rights have been betrayed this time by those who should instead defend us indiscriminately.”
Michal Herzog is the First Lady of the State of Israel.
Michael Sfaradi, November 22, 2023
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