OTTAWA — The Israeli expert leading a civilian commission into sexual violence by Hamas is calling for global bodies to recognize 'a new crime against humanity,' involving violence targeted at families.
OTTAWA — The Israeli expert leading a civilian commission into sexual violence by Hamas is calling for global bodies to recognize"a new crime against humanity," involving violence targeted at families.
Elkayam-Levy is an international-law professor at Hebrew University who chairs Israel's Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes Against Women and Children. They started to notice six patterns of violence involving among the circumstances of more than 140 families. She's also taken aim at"the silence of many international organizations, and the lack of moral clarity," in calling out sexual violence by Hamas, which Ottawa deems a terrorist group.
Acts of sexual violence were not part of 43-minute video that Israel's foreign ministry has screened for journalists, including The Canadian Press, which was sourced from security footage and videos filmed by militants during their October 2023 attack. In March, Ottawa came under fire for pledging both $1 million for groups supporting Israeli victims of Hamas sexual violence and $1 million for Palestinian women facing"sexual and gender-based violence" from unspecified actors.
"The fact that are trying to to make the right political decision, instead of the right moral decision, is creating confusion, is creating moral blur — instead of making space for all victims to be heard for what they have endured," she said.
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