Statement by Hamas on False UN Report 

6 March 2024

We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), reject and strongly condemn the report issued by UN official Pramila Patten, regarding the claim and allegations of Palestinian resistance fighters committing “rape and sexual violence” incidents during the events of October 7th.

This came after failed “Israeli” attempts to prove this false charge, which was confirmed to have no basis in truth, except to demonize the Palestinian resistance, and to cover up the United Nations rapporteurs’ report about the existence of conclusive evidence of horrific human rights violations suffered by Palestinian women and girls by the “Israeli” occupation forces.

Despite Ms. Patten’s claims and her false and baseless accusations against the Palestinian fighters, her report did not document any testimony of what she calls victims of those cases, but relied in her report on “Israeli” institutions, soldiers, and witnesses selected by the occupation authorities, to push towards trying to prove this false charge, which was refuted by all investigations and international reports.

Ms. Patten’s claims are clearly contradicted by the testimonies of “Israeli” women about the good treatment by the fighters towards them, as well as the testimonies of the released “Israeli” female prisoners, and what they confirmed of the good treatment they received during their captivity in Gaza.

This false accusation will not succeed in obscuring the ugliness and horror of the “Israeli” crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of about 40,000 Palestinians, most of them women, children, and civilians, in a mass crime and ethnic cleansing, and a deliberate disregard for the resolutions of the International Court of Justice and other international reports, which documented parts of the crimes and atrocities committed in Gaza by the new Nazis.

Issued by Hamas, 6 March 2024