Sexual assault is almost always a notoriously difficult crime to prove, but it’s even more so when the assailants possess the means and amorality to murder, defile, and destroy the bodies of their victims. It’s not that Hamas terrorists, like rabid dogs let off the leash to rape and pillage, weren’t exactly subtle in concealing their crimes: We have all seen Naama Levy, the crotch of her pants bloodied and her Achilles tendon nicked, lest she try to run away, as well as the near-naked corpse of Shani Louk, upon which Hamas terrorists sat, parading through the streets of Gaza. But Hamas, like all sexual predators, has been torn between its hatred of the female body and its abject fear of it.
Oct. 7, for Hamas leadership, may have wound up too successful by half. The group maintains that it only meant to seize the hundreds of hostages still in its clutches, not slaughter some 1,400 Jews. But again, let rabid dogs off their leashes — and that’s clearly what those young men are, as uncontrollable and uncivilized as the most savage pit bull in the ring — and of course they’ll go rogue. And just as any owners are criminally liable for the damage done by their mangy mutts, Hamas is solely responsible for the rapes wrought by its adherents, no matter if it was part of the plan.
In a panic, Hamas clearly realized that the Jews will not be genocided with impunity and without fighting back. Hence, the category five tantrum to deny the rapes ever happened, bury the bodies, and silence the survivors. Even despite hours of footage broadcast across the globe and a damning report by the United Nations secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, #MeToo truthers have persisted. While you can all too easily find any drivel of this rape-denying genre on X, for specificity’s sake, here is Briahna Joy Gray, the former campaign press secretary for socialist superstar Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The entire clip, proudly shared by Gray, consists of her fisking a singular New York Times story for more than 10 minutes. Her central contention? That one video undercut a source’s claim that two teenagers, who were indisputably murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri, were also raped. In Gray’s ostensible narrative, that two girls were only murdered and not also raped means that all the other victims raped by Hamas weren’t actually raped by Hamas. Or something.
It’s not enough that we have the videos of Levy’s bloody pants and Louk’s corpse, the entire U.N. report. Instead, because dead women and those still held hostage by eighth century barbarians cannot speak, the survivors will be shamed out of their silence, forced to relive their worst nightmares and for all the world to hear. Such was the experience of Amit Soussana, the first released hostage to tell the incontrovertible truth that she, too, was sexually assaulted while held in captivity by Hamas.
Soussana, an Israeli lawyer who lived alone just north of the Gaza border, had already told the authorities that mattered about her ordeal.
“Amit spoke immediately, fluently, and in detail, not only about her sexual assault but also about the many other ordeals she experienced,” said Dr. Julia Barda, a senior Israeli gynecologist who treated Soussana after her release. Medical professor Siegal Sadetzki, who treated Soussana within days of her release, confirmed Soussana’s consistency of her story to the U.N. and, later, to the New York Times.
The New York Times spent eight hours just interviewing Soussana herself, corroborating what expert witnesses and medical testimony already confirmed: that she had been assaulted by her captor while held in a Gaza residence. The details are harrowing.
“Every day, he would ask: ‘Did you get your period? Did you get your period? When you get your period, when it will be over, you will wash, you will take a shower, and you will wash your clothes,'” Soussana recalled her captor interrogating her. While she was able to lie and claim her period lasted a week — given her shock and malnourishment, it lasted only one day — her captor eventually insisted she take a cold shower, supplying her a single pot of boiling water. (The implication, from this cretin, is that a menstruating woman is too unclean to sleep with but an unconsenting one is just fine!)
“I turned around and I saw him standing there with the gun,” said Soussana, who tried to cover herself with a hand towel as he accosted her. “He said, ‘Amit, Amit, take it off. Finally, I took it off. He sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face.”
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And we all know how this story, like too many, ends.
Rape victims should not owe us their stories, much less the gritty details of when they menstruated or how exactly they tried to cover up their nakedness. But here is Soussana, after weeks of captivity, assault, and a likely bevy of forensic exams, telling the New York Times all the details. We do not need to believe all women by default, but when the evidence is too ugly and too intimate to be denied, the only ones who continue to do so are those who would deny all atrocities when the victims in question are the Jews.