Jack Albrecht
2 min readJan 5, 2024

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Your first link provides no direct evidence, and particularly ZERO forensic evidence. As a matter of fact, the BBC discounts every example they use.

"One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, decapitated".

"To our question about how he could be sure - without seeing it - that the screams he heard indicated sexual assault rather than other kinds of violence, he said he believed while listening at the time that it could only have been rape."

Then; "Police say they have "multiple" eye-witness accounts of sexual assault, but wouldn't give any more clarification on how many. When we spoke to them, they hadn't yet interviewed any surviving victims."

Then; "The BBC has not been able to independently verify this account, and Israeli media reports have questioned some testimony from volunteers working in the traumatic aftermath of the Hamas attacks."

Then; "Teams here told us they'd seen clear evidence of rape and sexual violence on the bodies coming in, including broken pelvises from sustained violent abuse.

"We see women of all ages," one of the reservists on the forensic team, Captain Maayan, told the BBC. 'We see rape victims. We see women who have been through violation. We have pathologists and we see the bruises, we learn about the cuts and tears, and we know they have been sexually abused."'

So...allegedly they have seen rape victims, but there is still absolutely zero forensic evidence. None.

Do I personally believe people were sexually assaulted on 7 October? I think it is very likely. Have you provided any evidence with this article? No.

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Next link is a video of an alleged Hamas fighter who cops to sexual crimes. Let's first note that posting a POW video is a war crime by Israel. For that reason, and the main reason that he is a captured fighter, nothing he says can be taken at face value.

It is ridiculous to post a war crime video of a POW as evidence of rapes by Hamas.

You're 0:3 here, Lester, since the tweet is the same as the link above.

Correction: 0:4 since the last link says a General says authorities have evidence of rape, but as always, they do not provide that evidence.

I don't know or care who David Irving is or was. I'm glad I waited until after the holidays to address your Gish Gallop.

I do my own research. I know the NYT is having pushback from the sister of the NYT lead alleged rape victim. Again I note still with zero forensic evidence.

Since you posted these four as your best, I'm very confident your "100 other links" would be just as empty of any evidence as well.

If Hamas had really raped as a policy statistically there should be at least one piece of forensic evidence.

Instead, this is just another of your genocide apologia posts. History is not going to look kindly on what you are justifying, Lester.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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