Sexual assault
Mazen Kahel and Ramy Abdu, among the leadership of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor NGO, are seen posing with Hamas officials, including Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza, in 2011. (NGO Monitor)
May 12, 2026, 8:54 am
Israel rejects NYT column alleging widespread rape of Palestinian inmates
After Nicholas Kristof cites report by Euro-Med Monitor as evidence, Israeli Ambassador to US Leiter highlights its leaders’ photos with Hamas officials
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Romi Gonen speaks to Channel 12 in the second episode of a two-part interview, broadcast on January 1, 2026. (Screen capture: Channel 12, via The Times of Israel)
January 3, 2026, 8:44 pm
Romi Gonen: Hamas chief offered early release in exchange for silence on sexual assault
Former Gaza brigade head Izz al-Din al-Haddad showed up at hostage’s release in January 2025, told her he kept up his end of the deal and she should do the same, she says
By ToI Staff
Reem Alsalem (Photo by UN Women, courtesy of flickr.com)
November 26, 2025, 9:53 am
Time for the UN to salvage its credibility
Alsalem took to social media to cast doubt on the sexual violence, torture and gender-based crimes that occurred on Oct,. 7, 2023
By Danny Danon
Dinah Project. (Screenshot by David Rullo)
July 16, 2025, 9:57 am
Disbelief
What we have unfortunately witnessed is that “believe all women” expired that day into a resounding disbelief of Jewish ones in favor of their monstrous abusers
By Sarah Kendis
Matan Zangauker (right) and Ilana Gritzewsky were abducted from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
March 25, 2025, 1:35 pm
Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky says captors sexually assaulted her
31-year-old, whose partner Matan Zangauker is still captive, tells NYT she was groped during abduction, passed out and woke up half-naked in Gaza with 7 gunmen standing over her
By ToI Staff
A screenshot from an IDF interrogation video of captured Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Manar Qassem, who confesses to raping an Israeli woman in the October 7 attack, March 28, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law, via The Times of Israel)
March 28, 2024, 2:30 pm
In interrogation clip, terrorist confesses to raping Israeli woman on Oct. 7
IDF says footage is ‘further proof of the onslaught of murder and sexual violence by terrorist organizations’ during rampage in southern Israel
By Emanuel Fabian
Amit Soussana, taken captive by Hamas terrorists from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023 and released on November 30, 2023. (Courtesy via The Times of Israel)
March 26, 2024, 4:46 pm
Released hostage Amit Soussana reveals she was sexually assaulted by Hamas captor
In interview with New York Times, freed captive becomes first to speak out publicly on sexual abuse, says she was forced at gunpoint to commit ‘a sexual act’ on guard
By TOI Staff
A Supernova party survivor at the Secret Forest retreat center in Cyprus, in an undated photo. Her bracelet is the entrance token from the party, on the date of the massacre. In the October 7, 2023 onslaught, 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst through the Gaza border and murdered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, some 360 of them at the Supernova outdoor music festival. (Courtesy via The Times of Israel)
December 29, 2023, 10:25 am
In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7
Publication uncovers new information, devastating testimony, on systemic targeting of women and girls, use of sexual assault and mutilation during savage Hamas onslaught in Israel
By TOI Staff
Sheryl Sandberg (Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
November 22, 2023, 3:34 pm
Sheryl Sandberg joins Jewish women in calling out lack of concern about sexual assault of Israelis
“In their silence, these organizations have rendered themselves irrelevant."
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A screenshot from Camp Ramah New England's Facebook page shows Rabbi Ethan Linden (center) two days after the lawsuit against him was filed.
May 10, 2022, 9:08 am
Lawsuit alleges mishandling of sex assault allegation at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires
Plaintiff claims that Rabbi Ethan Linden did not immediately report the assault to authorities or remove the accused male camper from camp
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, on 34th and Lexington. The all-male campus counterpart is in Morningside Heights. (Julia Gergely)
March 29, 2022, 3:32 pm
Rape allegation at Yeshiva University stirs reforms — and skepticism
A student claimed she was raped by one of YU's basketball players, whom she didn’t name — and that she and her alleged rapist were asked by the school to sign nondisclosure agreements.
By Julia Gergely
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