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UN hears accounts of sexual violence during 7 October attacks by Hamas

Speakers also attacked women’s rights activists and UN officials for not doing more to investigate or condemn crimes

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The United Nations has heard accounts of sexual violence during the 7 October attacks by Hamas, in a meeting where speakers also attacked women’s rights activists and UN officials for not doing more to investigate or condemn these crimes.

Israeli officials and frontline workers, senior US politicians and activists from both countries spoke at the meeting on Monday, organised in part by former Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg. She told those gathered that “silence is complicity”.

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