from Daily Sabah
An Israeli kibbutz near Gaza rejected claims published in The New York Times regarding the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, regarding sexual abuse allegations.
According to a report by The Intercept online, Michal Paikin, a spokesperson for Kibbutz Be’eri, issued a firm denial of the claims in the Times article "Screams Without Words": How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7, asserting, "It’s not true."
The Times article cited three alleged victims of sexual assault from Oct. 7, the day Palestinian group Hamas launched a cross-border raid into southern Israel, reportedly killing some 1,200 people.
One is identified as Gal Abdush, also known as the "woman in the black dress," whose family members have raised objections to the claims reported by The Times. The other two, unnamed teenage sisters from Kibbutz Be’eri, were described with enough detail in the article to potentially identify them as sisters with the last name Sharabi, ages 13 and 16.
Paikin categorically rejected allegations about the sisters, saying that while they were shot, they were not subjected to sexual abuse, casting doubt on the Times story.
"You’re talking about the Sharabi girls?” she told The Intercept. "No, they ... were shot and were not subjected to sexual abuse.”
Further undermining the credibility of the allegations, Paikin called into question the reliability of testimony by an Israeli special forces paramedic, a primary source for the Times article.
"It’s not true,” she said, referring to the paramedic’s claims about the girls. "They were not sexually abused.”
"We stand by the story and are continuing to report on the issue of sexual violence on Oct. 7,” Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha told The Intercept...
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