Why? Primarily in order to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60), and to humiliate those who they hated. But also because Islam exalts sexual activity as essentially the highest good a human being can attain, since it is what the blessed will be engaging in forever in paradise. As far as they’re concerned, to destroy one’s ability to engage in it is to strike at the most precious aspect of humanity.
“Hamas terrorists had ‘a thing with sexual organs’ and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims: UN testimony,” by Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, December 5, 2023:
Barbaric Hamas terrorists had “a thing with sexual organs’’ and targeted the genitalia of male and female victims during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to harrowing United Nations testimony Monday.
Some of the fiends’ unspeakable acts involved a murdered woman found with “nails and different objects in her female organs” and a gang-rape victim who had one of her breasts cut off — with her attackers then playing with it on the road, Israel said.
There were “horrific things I saw with my own eyes and I felt with my own hands,” said stricken Simcha Greinman, a volunteer who helped collect the remains of the slaughtered victims, according to the New York Times.
The Jewish state accused the UN during a special session of moving too slowly to address reports that the terror group unleashed sexual violence as a weapon of war in its attack, NBC News reported.
“This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News.
“Sadly, the very international bodies that are supposedly the defenders of all women showed that when it comes to Israelis, indifference is acceptable,” he said.
“To these organizations, Israeli women are not women, the rape of Israelis is not an act of rape. "Their silence has been deafening,” he added, referring to UN groups and the international community.
About 800 people, including Jewish groups and diplomats from dozens of countries, attended the presentation, which laid out evidence of large-scale sexual violence.
A female police officer said in video testimony played at the event that during the sneak attack, “shooting was targeted at sexual organs,” adding, “We saw that a lot,” All Israel reported.
“The women we received, they were civilian. … We mainly saw either breast amputations or gunshots just to the breast, simply shooting from one side of the breast to the other,” another female cop said.
“As for men, they were also shot in their genitalia,” she added.
One of the officers said, “They had a thing with sexual organs — both in women and in men, either amputation or targeted shooting [to that part of the body],” the Messenger reported.
Shari Mendes, a member of an Israel Defense Forces reserve unit in charge of identifying and preparing the bodies of female soldiers for burial, also testified that she saw “systematic genital mutilation,” according to All Israel.
A female survivor of the attack on a musical festival where hundreds of people were massacred described how a woman was raped during the atrocity.
“I remember how [one attacker] shifted her position, then passed her on to another person,” she recalled in the video testimony.
“She was alive. … She was standing. … She was bleeding from her back. … She had long hair, and he was pulling it. … She wasn’t dressed. … He cut her breast. "He threw it on the road, and they played with it,” the woman recounted in the gruesome testimony.
Israeli national police Superintendent Yael Richert, who presented the sickening accounts, said, “Everything was an apocalypse of corpses — girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some were beheaded.”…