A United Nations report has found credible allegations that sexual assaults took place during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. A team led by the U.N. special envoy for sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, found “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape and “sexualized torture.” Patten presented the report Monday at the … Read more
AFULA, Israel — Dalal Abu Amneh insists she didn’t mean to take sides with her Facebook message on Oct. 7: “The only victor is God.” The Palestinian citizen of northern Israel — a neuroscientist and a folk singer renowned in the Arab world — was starting a silent retreat at a Christian monastery in Jerusalem … Read more
JERUSALEM — The U.N. agency for Palestinian affairs said Friday it was terminating the contracts of several staff members after Israel alleged agency workers had participated in the Hamas attack Oct. 7 that left 1,200 people in Israel dead and triggered the current fighting in Gaza. “Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave When she first heard about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Mirela Monte was “appalled.” The South Carolina real estate agent and self-described holistic healer detests violence and is horrified by war and human suffering. But as Monte read more in Uncensored Truths, a Telegram group with … Read more
January 7, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Pinchas Houminer outside of his dry cleaner business at the Efrat Israeli settlement in the West Bank, on Nov. 21. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave EFRAT, West Bank — It’s been nearly three months since Palestinian workers were allowed in this Jewish … Read more
Israel has blown up what it says was a “subterranean terror city” underneath a central Gaza City square that was used to plot the Oct 7 massacre. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) said it discovered “terrorist infrastructure” below Palestine Square in the city centre with lengthy tunnels, hiding places and offices belonging to Hamas’s senior … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave As Lishay Lavi went to bed on Oct. 6 at her home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel, she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. She had heard that Hamas militants were training nearby in the Gaza Strip. The group’s exercises in … Read more
It was easy to miss, amid the horrors, what answered them. In the blood-soaked weeks that started on Oct. 7, the most consequential acts in Israel and in Gaza may also have been the least noticed, carried out not by those who claimed leadership but by those whom leaders had failed. The people who pulled … Read more
Sheryl Sandberg, the high profile former Meta executive, spoke alongside Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and several Israeli officials at an event designed to highlight the atrocities committed against women by Hamas during its attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, and to scold the international community for its silence on the issue. Former Secretary of State Hillary … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com Arnold Schwarzenegger is speaking out against the barbaric, unprovoked Hamas attack on Israel … meeting with survivors and their families. The former governor of California got emotional as he condemned the Oct. 7 slaughter of innocent civilians … saying it’s unlike anything he’s ever seen and offering his support for Israel. … Read more