Sao Paulo
The Women’s Leadership Empowerment (ELF) group from Fisesp (Israeli Federation of the State of São Paulo) held an event this Thursday (30) to raise awareness of sexual violence against women perpetrated by Hamas terrorists during their invasion of Israel was committed on October 7th.
Mariza de Aizenstein, a member of the ELF and one of the organizers of the event, says that the aim is to pressure organizations that promote women’s rights to take a clearer position on the issue, which, in her opinion is negated by other aspects of the current situation. War in Gaza.
“Feminists, where are you right now?” he asks. “Our bodies cannot be instruments of war aggression.”
There are records of rape and episodes of sexual violence by members of the terror group during the attack, documented by security cameras, as well as photos and videos taken on body cameras by civilians, rescuers and Hamas itself.
Survivors and witnesses describe how women were raped before they died on the day of the attacks, many of them at the electronic music party where most of the 1,200 deaths recorded by Israeli authorities occurred.
The crime this Thursday took place at around 12:30 p.m. on Rua Oscar Freire, west of São Paulo. In it, a young woman, whose pants are stained with red paint and whose hands are tied in front of her body, is led and attacked from time to time by a man dressed in black, wearing a bulletproof vest and whose face is covered with a mask.
The performance reproduces a real scene experienced by 19yearold Israeli Naama Levy, which went viral after it was posted on social media by Hamas. The young woman, who was serving at a military base at the time of her capture, remains missing.
Although most pedestrians passed the crime without stopping, some raised their cell phones to film it. This was the case of a man who was approached by him Sheet who did not want to be identified. When asked why he decided To the manifesto, he said he did so to send it to a newsgroup on WhatsApp after seeing the Israeli flag, but he did not want his opinion on the issue communicate.
Other passersby commented on the manifesto as they passed. Friends Ana, 56, Cássia, 64, and Kátia, 63, who did not reveal their last names, said they agreed that the topic of the protest was not being discussed enough. “Nobody shows that they are being kidnapped, raped or killed and that they are girls,” Ana said.