UN rights experts demands accountability of sexual torture victims by Hamas

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 9th Jan. UN uman rights experts on Monday demanded prompt investigations and accountability for victims of sexual torture on 7 October Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel.

The experts reiterated that some 1,200 Israeli and foreign nationals were killed in the surprise attacks across 22 villages and thousands more injured.

Over 240 adults, children and infants were taken hostage by militants from Hamas and other Palestinian extremist groups.

Special Rapporteurs called for justice related to other grave crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since the war in Gaza began a likely reference to growing violence in the West Bank including East Jerusalem that has left 300 Palestinians dead since 7 October, in a statement issued in New York.

“Investigators must be given the necessary resources, support and access required” to explore all alleged crimes,” the experts said.

They called on Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the de facto authorities in Gaza to cooperate fully with any probes.