(8 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 8 July 2025
1. First Lady of Israel Michal Herzog, wife of President Isaac Herzog, stands for photo as she receives Israeli report that says Hamas used sexual violence as a “tactical weapon of war” in Oct. 7, 2023 attacks
2. Close of report
3. First Lady of Israel hugs Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage:
"On Saturday, October 7th (2023), I was at my home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, with my husband Matan (Zangoker). Suddenly, there was noise, explosions, screaming, and the breaking down of the house’s door. They kidnapped us. I remember, they pointed guns at me. I remember hands, not related to me, touching me. I remember screaming and then darkness."
5. Wide of meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ilana Gritzewsky, released hostage:
"In captivity I experienced hell. Hunger, fasting, isolation and physical and mental abuse. My body ached and my bones were broken. But the humiliation, fear and the feeling that you are owned by someone else, that was the pain that never eased."
7. Meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michal Herzog, First Lady of Israel:
"The understanding that we must learn from past experience and the understanding that we, as Israeli women, must shout our voices for those who can no longer shout. And we must bring them justice."
9. Various of meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, co-founder of the Dinah Project:
"We formed an evidentiary framework that proves that Hamas used sexual violence in a systematic manner as a weapon of war. And we’ve also formed a legal theory that allows the prosecution of all those who took part in the attack for all the sexual atrocity, for all of the sexual violence that occurred during that attack."
11. First lady and other women hug each other
STORYLINE:
An Israeli report released Tuesday said that Hamas used sexual violence as a “tactical weapon of war” in its Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, building on other investigations by international and Israeli rights groups and the United Nations into the militant group’s assault.
The report was presented to Israel’s First Lady, Michal Herzog, during a meeting with released hostages and a team working on the report.
"I remember, they pointed guns at me. I remember hands, not related to me, touching me. I remember screaming and then darkness," Ilana Gritzewsky, a released hostage said during the meeting with Israel’s first lady. Hamas attacked Gritzewsky’s house in Kibbutz Nir Oz and kidnapped her along with her husband.
The report by the Dinah Project, a team of legal and gender experts, based its findings on survivor and witness testimonies, accounts from first responders, and forensic, visual and audio evidence.
It called for a shift in how conflict-related sexual violence is prosecuted, saying Hamas silenced its victims by killing them, robbing investigators of key evidence to hold the perpetrators to account.
The report comes as Israel and Hamas are negotiating a ceasefire for the 21-month war in Gaza, which began with the militants’ surprise cross-border raid. The deal would pause the fighting in the Palestinian territory and release some of the remaining 50 hostages, more than half whom are said to be dead.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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