(July 9, 2025 / JNS) Sexual violence was “widespread and systematic” during and after the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the authors of the Dinah Project report, released on Tuesday in Jerusalem.

Victims were found partially or fully naked, with their hands tied, often to structures like trees or poles. Evidence of gang rape followed by execution, genital mutilation and public humiliation was also found.

“The vast majority of those who were sexually assaulted were among the 1,166 who were murdered in the attack and therefore silenced forever,” according to the report.