She went to the Supernova festival in Israel to enjoy the music and atmosphere, but ended up being raped and killed at the hands of Hamas. Gal Abdush is one of the faces of the brutality suffered by Israeli women and girls during the Islamist group’s October 7 attacks, the newspaper reports. New York Times.
The explicit video of the sexual assault was posted on social media and quickly went viral. In the pictures you can see a woman lying on her back in a torn black dress, with her legs spread and her private parts exposed. The gravity of the situation left Internet users in shock as they worried about finding out the identity of the victim. Gal’s family knew exactly who it was.
Gal Abdush, a mother of two and a resident of a working-class town in Israel, disappeared along with her husband during a music festival where the massacre took place. The woman tried to escape and became trapped on the highway, unable to resist the attacks.
According to an investigation conducted Time, Details of the atrocities committed by Hamas during the October 7 attacks have been revealed. The newspaper said the attacks on women were not isolated episodes, but part of a wider pattern of gender-based violence.
Based on videos, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones and interviews with more than 150 people, at least seven locations were identified where women and girls were allegedly raped and mutilated.
Four witnesses said they saw women raped and killed at two different locations along Highway 232, the same highway where Gal Abdush’s half-naked body was found sprawled in the road at a third location.
Soldiers and doctors interviewed said they found more than 30 bodies of women and girls at the festival site and surrounding areas. The scenario in almost all cases was the same: exposed legs, torn clothing and signs of violence in the genital area.
ABOUT Time He also had access to a photograph showing the corpse of a woman with nails embedded in her thigh and groin, and a video showing two dead female soldiers shot in the vagina.
A United Nations report released this Monday said there were “reasonable grounds” to believe the Islamist movement Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture” and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during the October 7 attacks.
The same report also noted “reasons to believe that this violence may still continue.” Hamas rejected Israel’s accusations.
Israeli activists were outraged by the fact that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the UN Women agency acknowledged multiple allegations only weeks after the attacks.