It seems like everyone just accepted the idea that the barbarous hordes from Gaza must obviously be raping any Israeli girl they could get their hands on, repeating those claims as if it were accepted fact. But it never made sense to me- not because such acts are beneath them, but due to the time and logistical constraints they were under during their limited time beyond the Gaza borders. But it seems like everyone, including every media outlet, wouldn’t stop adding the accusations of rapes to the list of horrors Israelis faced that day.
That said, I am under no delusion that the hostages, once secured and taken to their base, are not at risk of being sexually assaulted. But nearly every interview I’ve seen with family members of (female) hostages seems to be highly concerned with rape as a likely outcome as if this is a common practice among Palestinians. I’ve seen many of them repeating that “Hamas is ISIS” and let their imaginations run wild with the worst possible scenarios.
But based on the hostages who have been released so far, we can at least say they were treated FAR, FAR better than the captives under US detainment in Abu Grahib or Guantanamo Bay.
sexual violence is done in nearly if not every armed conflict. being on the right side of geopolitics or anticolonialism doesn’t excuse it but conversely it doesn’t invalidate the cause if it’s “against the rules” that the resistance is trying to operate under, perpetrators are punished (idk how you do meaningfully obtain justice in that situation), peers and leardership try to discourage and prevent it etc. Even if literally every hostage was abused and tortured that would just make hamas evil, not absolve the colonizers of anything or justify anything israel has ever done or will do.
unless hamas filmed it themselves i doubt there would ever be evidence.