05/12/2026
Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.
Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive 'grey and green' of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.
Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had 'deliberately and systematically' defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.
The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after r**e amid an o**y of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.
Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, s*xual assault continued.
A grotesque, medieval obsession with s*xual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza.
At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.
While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts, today, as hard as it is, over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff ask that you do not look away.
For over two years they have given evidence to The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO established in the wake of October 7, 2023, in response to the failure of international institutions to address the s*xual violence committed that day.
The Daily Mail was the first British newspaper granted advance access to the report, fittingly titled 'Silenced No More', which is released today.
It shows it was not just women who were degraded as a 'deliberate tool of terror, humiliation, and control'. Men were also s*xually abused and in at least one case gang r***d.
Victims were mutilated, with body parts cut off used to create depraved scenes gleefully concocted to traumatise those who discovered them.
‘The purpose was humiliation, not victory,' first responder Eran Masas, who came across one such barbaric arrangement, told The Civil Commission.
Those taken hostage were assaulted in front of loved ones and young relatives forced to commit s*x acts on each other, an intentional, premeditated strategy of kinocide to destroy family units even after release from captivity.
The report runs to over 180 pages of utterly harrowing evidence, which collates and corroborates previous testimonies - as well as revealing disturbing new accounts.
The extensive, graphic testimonies are unflinching and seriously distressing.
But, sadly, it is also necessary that they are published in full to finally extinguish perverse doubts that remain over what happened that day.
As Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder of The Civil Commission and lead author of the report, says, it must 'shift the conversation from the question of whether it happened – to what are the consequences and what can we do to prevent such atrocities in the future'.
Because, unbelievably, some still question the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
Indeed, even certain sections of the established media have suggested that the extent of s*xual violence committed by the terrorists may have been exaggerated.
The UN, too, dragged its heels in recognising the atrocities committed. It seems 'believe all women' did not apply in this instance.
And so The Civil Commission, funded by philanthropic organisations and its archive supported by the German Embassy in Israel, has examined over 10,000 photographs and videos of the attack totalling more than 1,800 hours of visual analysis.
Testimonies, geolocation imagery, text messages, media reports and open source intelligence have been painstakingly scrutinised.
Crucially, the report finds that the abuse was not isolated.
There was a recurring pattern of r**e and gang r**e; s*xual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and ge***al area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; ge***al burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem s*xual humiliation; and ex*****on during or after s*xual assault.
Indeed, when Hamas led other terror groups into Israel they carried Arabic-to-Hebrew phrase lists commanding victims to 'take off your pants', 'lie down', and 'spread your legs'.
For Israeli first responders arriving at Nova hours later, it was clear extreme violence, s*xual humiliation and mutilation was an intentional, widespread tactic deployed that day.
Mr Masas remembers first coming across a bonfire of five or six bodies.
'Every three meters, another body,' he said. 'Gradually: skeletons, then body parts, heads, hands, a severed leg.'
'When you kill, you kill,' he said. 'But when you start doing other things to the person, especially after the person is already dead, what they did… the abuses… the torture… this is something else.'
Such sa**sm was widespread, with first responders finding 'aluminum cans, grenades, nails, blunt objects, rods, household tools and spike-like instruments, inserted into ge***als and other parts of the body'.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15807431/Full-depravity-Hamas-October-7-revealed-time-New-report-details-terrorists-performed-unimaginable-horrors-Israeli-families.html
