On October 7, 2023, as the Nova music festival was overrun by armed Hamas terrorists, surgical nurse Tali Biner hid in a trailer listening to women screaming “No” and “Stop”.
“I knew beyond any doubt that what was happening was not torture, it was sexual violence,” she told the New York Post last week.
From his hiding place in the nearby scrub, Raz Cohen listened to the same horrifying screams. At one point he lifted his head to look through branches and saw Hamas terrorists pull a woman from a white van, surround her in a semicircle, pull down her pants and rape her.
“At a certain point, the terrorist took out a knife and stabbed her,” Cohen said. “I saw that she wasn’t moving any more and he continued to rape her for a while after she was dead.”
[ A documentary sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. ]
Watching Hamas terrorists from his hiding place under the festival stage, Yoni Saadon, a 39-year-old father of four, saw a “beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or 10 fighters beating and raping her … When they finished, they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.” He later saw a girl beheaded with a shovel by Hamas when she refused to strip off her clothes.
When he arrived at the Nova site hours later, first responder Rami Davidian found “girls tied up with their hands behind them to every tree”. “Their legs were spread … Someone stripped them. Someone raped them. They inserted all kinds of things into their intimate organs.”
Another witness recounted seeing the naked body of a woman so battered that she was unidentifiable, nails hammered into her genitals.
[ Palestinian militants drive back to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen, during their cross-border attack on October 7, 2023. ]
[ Palestinian militants surround a truck reportedly carrying a captured Israeli woman in Khan Yunis on October 7, 2023. ]
Nearly 1200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937,” states a 2025 British all-party parliamentary group report into October 7, chaired by historian Andrew Roberts, Lord Roberts of Belgravia.
In the houses of the nearby kibbutz villages raided by Hamas, first responders found women and teenage girls tied up naked from the waist down, with signs of rape including semen on their bodies.
In one house, the bodies of a husband and wife were found, both tied up in a way that indicated that the husband was forced to watch his wife being raped before they were murdered. In another, a woman was found tied to a bed with signs of sexual assault and a knife in her vagina.
These are just a few of many testimonies so disturbing that some of the survivors and first responders who witnessed the atrocities of October 7 and the aftermath have committed suicide.
“Many of the rapes were gang rapes … Many of the rapes were done in front of an audience; spouses, family or friends … Most of the victims were executed after or during the rapes,” a 2024 report by the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel states.
‘I invite her (Grace Tame) to come here to bear witness. We have documented it in a way that is irrefutable … I invite her to look into the eyes of the hostages. The survivors. Look at the footage of the victims. Speak to family members’ - Cochav Elkayam-Levy Human rights lawyer
Sexual assault experts who collected evidence say the use of sexual torture by Hamas on October 7 was systematic and extensive. It also was planned. Phrasebooks found on bodies of Hamas militants included translations for “Take your clothes off” and “Spread your legs”.
“We have collected overwhelming evidence of the sexual violence that demonstrates it was an integral part of the attack on October 7,” says Cochav Elkayam-Levy, a human rights lawyer who founded the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children. “We are documenting this under the most strict protocols of international law.”
Some of the most incriminating evidence are videos taken by Hamas, Elkayam-Levy says. “They have documented the crimes themselves.”
With the help of the former archivist of the Spielberg Holocaust archives, Elkayam-Levy’s organisation has created a historical record of the sexual crimes in the form of a repository of thousands of pieces of evidence ranging from testimonies from survivors, witnesses, morgue workers and first responders, as well as videos filmed by Hamas terrorists and other evidence.
The EU’s 2024 report concluded that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad “committed widespread sexual and gender-based violence in a systematic manner, using it as a weapon of war”.
[ A United Nations report has acknowledged that sexual violence, including rape, occurred during the October 7 attacks by Hamas. The United Nations envoy for sexual violence Pramila Patten said there was “clear and convincing” evidence that sexual violence has been committed against captives. She said it is also possible sexual violence is ongoing among the captives still held by the terrorist organisation. “It’s great five months after the event, they have finally worked this out,” Sky News host James Macpherson said. “The UN didn’t bother sending a team to investigate until January 29 – almost four months after the attack. “Well, I guess it’s better late than never.” Warning – this video contains distressing content. ]
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten, who led an official visit to Israel in 2024 during which her team interviewed 34 individuals and viewed 5000 images and 50 hours of footage, described what she’d seen, according to a UN statement, as “a catalogue of the most extreme and inhumane forms of killing, torture, and other horrors including sexual violence”.
Often hostile to Israel, the UN issued Patten’s report that determined the sexual crimes met the UN’s “reasonable grounds to believe” threshold. The UN put Hamas on its 2025 blacklist for using sexual crimes in conflict.
In the face of overwhelming evidence, it is a testament to the effectiveness of the propaganda campaign since October 7, 2023, that Grace Tame, who built her reputation as an advocate for sexual assault survivors, would deny the October 7 rapes.
Tame took to the media this week to bemoan losing paid speaking gigs because of what she called “a smear campaign” by “a well-oiled political machine” following her “From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada” chant at a rally in Sydney, weeks after the intifada was in fact globalised when two Islamists gunned down 15 people at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach.
After trying to sanitise the word intifada, colloquially used to describe the suicide bombings, shootings and other attacks of the second intifada that killed more than 1000 Israelis after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected a peace deal with Israel in 2000, Tame then doubled down on October 7 atrocity denial.
Asked during an ABC radio interview about her failure to speak out on behalf of Israeli women raped and killed by Hamas on October 7, Tame snapped: “I am not going to sink to the level of entertaining any kind of propaganda.”
When asked why she considered that propaganda, Tame responded angrily: “Those things have been debunked.”
“It is a twisted reality that we see prominent figures questioning the sexual violence,” Elkayam-Levy says. She attributes the denial to “the dehumanisation of Israelis so that they can’t see us as victims”.
“I invite her (Tame) to come here to bear witness,” she says. “We have documented it in a way that is irrefutable. We have collected overwhelming evidence of the sexual violence that demonstrates it was an integral part of the October 7 massacre.
“She can come to see image after image, video after video, that we can’t publicly broadcast because the families don’t know what happened to their loved ones. I invite her to look into the eyes of the hostages. The survivors. Look at the footage of the victims. Speak to family members. The mothers of Shani Louk and Naama Levy.”
Louk’s body was paraded in Gaza after she was murdered and Levy was the female hostage filmed being shoved, injured and bound, in blood-soaked pants, into a vehicle on October 7.
For many of the Israeli hostages taken into Gaza, sexual abuse occurred during their captivity. Amit Soussana, Rom Braslavski and Arbel Yehud are among numerous Israeli hostages held by Hamas and PIJ who have talked publicly about the sexual assaults they endured in Gaza. Yehud says she suffered sexual abuse from the time she was taken until the end of her captivity in January 2025.
The evidence of the October 7 atrocities and sexual assaults is as compelling as that of crimes committed against Bosnian women in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 and against Yazidis by Islamic State, yet the denial by anti-Israel campaigners is profound.
This includes not only Tame but also left-wing Australian academics and journalists who have taken to X to claim the October 7 rapes didn’t happen. Many of those who deny the atrocities and rapes are activists enlisted by the anti-Israel protest movement who, like Tame, have little knowledge about the conflict beyond the talking points they’ve been fed, nor a desire to obtain knowledge outside their own extremist echo chambers.
“I stand strong with my convictions and the knowledge of history,” Tame told the ABC. “I am a human rights activist who advocates for the safety of all human beings, no matter their background, whether they are Jewish, whether they are Muslims, whether they are Christian, whether they are atheist.”
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, who won a landmark lawsuit in 2000 against Holocaust denier David Irving, sees parallels between Holocaust denial and October 7 atrocity and sexual assault denial.
British historian Roberts agrees. “Holocaust denial took a few years to take root in pockets of society, but on 7 October 2023 it took only hours for people to claim that the massacres in southern Israel had not taken place. Hamas and its allies, both in the Middle East and equally shameful in the West, have sought to deny the atrocities,” his 2025 report states.
Lipstadt has expressed particular shock at the silence of groups that were quick to speak out when the perpetrators of atrocities were Boko Haram or Islamic State. Yet when it came to Jews, not only did these groups not speak out but they denied it.
“The silence was most disconcerting. Silence of precisely those groups from whom one would expect to have been outraged – women’s groups, progressive groups, groups that fight sexual violence, human rights groups,” Lipstadt says.
“What’s the difference between that and October 7? There’s only one difference, and that difference is the perception that these victims were all Jews.”
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What a disgusting piece of shit.
Refusal to look at or address the evidence proves she knows she's lying. She knows that if she saw it, she'd have to stop.
The response – or lack of – also demonstrates it was never just "anti-Zionism" but full-blown antisemitsm. They can't pretend that they hold the moral high ground when their "freedom fighter" heroes are full-blown sadistic degenerate savages.
Death to Hamas. Exterminate them all.
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