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Dinah Project Report Details Systematic Sexual Violence by Hamas, Urges UN to Blacklist Group

Survivor testimonies, forensic data, visual evidence fuel demands for legal reform, a United Nations blacklist of Hamas

A copy of the report by the Dinah Project on sexual violence committed on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas is displayed by a journalist before a ceremony presenting the report to Israel's first lady Michal Herzog in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
A woman holds a copy of the report titled 'A Quest for Justice' on Sexual Violence during the Oct.7 2023 Hamas attack at the President House in Jerusalem July 8, 2025, REUTERS/ Dedi Hayun

Overview

  • The Dinah Project’s July 8 report compiles testimony from 15 returned hostages, a Nova music festival survivor, 17 eyewitnesses and first responders alongside forensic, visual and audio evidence.
  • It documents at least 15 separate sexual assault incidents during the October 7, 2023 attacks, including four gang rapes, forced nudity, genital mutilation and victims bound to trees or poles before execution.
  • Hostage accounts describe ongoing sexualized torture in captivity, threats of forced marriage and two male detainees reporting forced nudity and physical abuse when naked.
  • The report calls for conflict-related sexual violence to be prosecuted as crimes against humanity, proposing legal standards that admit non-testimonial evidence and apply joint criminal responsibility.
  • Dinah Project leaders have asked the UN Secretary-General to add Hamas to a blacklist of groups using sexual violence as a weapon of war, and Hamas officials have declined to comment.