Pramila Patten, Special envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflict says she now understands the magnitude of the events. Committed to working for the release of the female hostages. Her team will stay here this week, and she calls on the victims to testify

According to Pramila Patten, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflicts, she has been unable to sleep for a week since viewing the 47-minute video compiled by the IDF of the atrocities committed on October 7. The scenes continue to haunt her. “Only after I saw the video did I understand things that I didn’t understand before in terms of the magnitude of the disaster that happened.”

“Patten’s visit was especially important to us so that there would be international recognition of the suffering and the horrendous sexual crimes committed against Israeli women and girls on October 7 by the monsters of Hamas,” Erdan said. “It is equally important for the world to understand who we are fighting against. The disregard and indifference demonstrated by the UN and its women’s organization is a disgrace that cannot be allowed to continue.”

Paten will depart on Monday, at the conclusion of an intense 8-day visit. Throughout her stay, she gathered evidence of the incidents of sexual and gender-based violence perpetrated by the terrorists.

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  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2837·
    9 months ago

    So sick of hearing how bad October 7th was.

    You have to thank the 10/7 truthers for that. For those tinfoil hat folks “nothing happened on October 7th”, “there was no rape”, “Hamas are heroes”, and we have many, many of these 10/7 deniers on Lemmy that are amplifying the disgusting “believe all women, except Israelis”. It is important to remind that the rapes happened, that Hamas is not a “resistance movement” but merely a bunch of rapists and terrorists, and most importantly that rape is not resistance.

      • ski11erboi@lemm.eeEnglish
        77·
        9 months ago

        You guys really need to work on reading comprehension. I never advocated for anything. All I said is that is if Israel believes their response to October 7th is fair, then it’s only fair that the same is done to them in return. That is the world they want to live in. I personally would never retaliate but my comment was not about how I would handle the situation so please don’t assume you know how I wish things to play out.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        68·
        9 months ago

        You were on point until the Mondoweiss link at the end. They’re a low credibility site and are pretty much banned from here.

        To be clear, you aren’t wrong, you can find a better supporting link. Replace that and we’re good.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            82·
            9 months ago

            Nope, other than the mondoweiss link, there’s nothing actionable.

            If they had submitted it as a post, it would be removed under rule 3, but rule 3 is not an instant ban offense.