New York Times Report Highlights An Israeli family denies allegations of rape by Hamas militants.

On December 28, The New York Times reported that fighters from the Palestinian resistance group Hamas committed gender-based violence against Israeli women during Operation Al Aqsa Storm against the occupation group. October 7 The report's authors, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz, and Adam Sella, based their story on more than 150 interviews with victims or their families, many of them based on repeated testimony before October 7. Published.

It has been previously published and has already been discredited and distrusted.

But a third of the report focuses on the Abdush family, a working-class Jewish family, and the loss of their daughter Gal, known as "the woman in black", and how she was raped during World War II. was made. Hamas attack. The report focused on a video that a woman named Eden Wesley filmed on October 8 and posted on her social media accounts.

According to the New York Times, "The video went viral and thousands of people responded to the black dress to see if it was their missing friend, sister or daughter."

A day after the news broke, Israeli news site Ynet interviewed Gal's parents, who said there was no evidence Gal had been sexually assaulted and that the newspaper's reporters had interviewed them under the pretense that I didn't know anything. The issue of sexual violence before it appeared in American newspapers. Meanwhile, Gal's sisters have strongly denied the allegations of sexual assault.

On January 1, Nagy's brother-in-law, Nissim Abdush, repeatedly denied that his brother-in-law had been sexually assaulted in an interview with Israel's Channel 13. Hamas has strongly denied allegations of rape and sexual abuse against Israeli soldiers and said the regime is not confronted with such fabricated stories.

"We reject Israel's lies about rape aimed at crushing resistance and undermining the humane and moral treatment of prisoners," Hamas said in a statement in early December. The Israeli regime began its war in Gaza on October 7, after Hamas launched an operation against the occupation forces in response to the Israeli regime's abuses against Palestinians.

Since the start of the US-backed offensive, the Israeli regime has killed at least 22,300 Palestinians, many of them women and children, and injured more than 57,000. Thousands of people are missing and presumed dead in the rubble.