UN experts demand accountability for sexual violence during Hamas assault

Tel Aviv, Jan 9 (IANS) Two UN-appointed independent experts have demanded full accountability for the multitude of crimes, including sexual violence, committed against Israeli civilians during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

In December last year, the Israeli police launched a probe into cases of sexual violence after officers collected more than 1,000 statements and over 60,000 video clips related to the attacks of sexual violence that included accounts from people who reported seeing women raped and brutalised.

According to the experts Alice Jill Edwards and Morris Tidball-Binz, the alleged crimes include grave violations of