Hamas statement, March 5, 2024
“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) reject and strongly deplore the report issued by UN official Pramila Patten. Regarding the allegation and allegations that Palestinian resistance fighters committed incidents of ‘rape and sexual violence’ during the events of October 7, which came after failed Zionist attempts to prove that false accusation, which was confirmed to be baseless, other than demonizing the Palestinian resistance and covering up the report of the United Nations rapporteurs on There is conclusive evidence of horrific human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls by the Zionist occupation forces.
“Despite Ms. Patten’s false and false claims and accusations against Palestinian resistance fighters, her report did not document any testimony from what she calls the victims of these cases. Rather, in her report, she relied on Israeli institutions, soldiers, and witnesses who were chosen by the occupation authorities, to push towards an attempt to prove this false accusation, which was refuted by all investigations. And international reports.
“Ms. Patten's allegations clearly contradict what emerged from the testimonies of Israeli women about the good treatment of them by resistance fighters, as well as the testimonies of released Israeli female prisoners, and what they confirmed of the good treatment they received during their captivity in Gaza.
“This false accusation will not succeed in obliterating the ugliness and horror of the Zionist crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, which caused the death of about 40,000 Palestinians, most of them women, children and civilians, in a mass crime and ethnic cleansing, and in deliberate disregard of the decisions of the International Court of Justice and other international reports, which It documented parts of the crimes and atrocities committed in Gaza by neo-Nazis.”“Press Statement,” Hamas Online Telegram Channel, March 5, 2024.