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Beastly Boy

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1. Claims of a thorough investigation by Yes Magazine unravel upon investigation by UN
Fri Mar 15, 2024, 10:19 AM
Mar 2024

There is a single source of data that the author decided to investigate, to the exclusion fo all others, basing its conclusion on the examination of a few instances of circumstantial evidence they found in that single source that they consider questionable but that are by no means conclusive. No mention of direct, conclusive and overwhelming evidence that makes their attempt at whitewashing the wholesale sadistic rape, torture and murder orgy that occurred on November 7.

Contrast this to the conclusions of an actual thorough investigation announced by the UN Special Representative Pramila Patten:

‘Clear and convincing information’ that hostages held in Gaza subjected to sexual violence, says UN Special Representative

Following a 17-day visit to Israel, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict reported on Monday that she and a team of experts had found “clear and convincing information” of rape and sexualized torture being committed against hostages seized during the 7 October terror attacks.

Pramila Patten added in a press release issued along with the report that there are also reasonable grounds to believe that such violence, which includes other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, may be continuing against those still being held by Hamas and other extremists in the Gaza Strip.

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In the context of the coordinated attack by Hamas and others of 7 October, the UN mission team found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape in at least three locations in southern Israel.

The team also found a pattern of victims - mostly women - found fully or partially naked, bound and shot across multiple locations which “may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence”.


“Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, which the Yes article is attempting to disregard and dismiss, for reasons that defy rational explanation.

This article is a disgrace, not only to the title of "journalism" that the magazine claims, but to the victims of rape and torture everywhere.

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