Hamas Political Bureau Member Osama Hamdan Rejects UN Report on Hamas’s Sexual Violence on October 7

Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan slammed the recent UN report on sexual violence committed against Israelis during the October 7 attack in a March 6, 2024 interview on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon). He said that Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC), Ms. Pramila Patten who compile the report should be fire. Hamdan explained that the report was a “scandal in the halls of the UN,” that it was not based on evidence, and that it was unprofessional. He continued to claim that the Israeli women who were “taken captive” on October 7 stated upon their release that they were not sexually attacked. Hamdan asserted that one of the women (referring to Mia Schem) even underwent cosmetic surgery because she thought she was not attractive enough to be sexually assaulted. In other parts of the interview, Hamdan said that America had not thought anyone would dare strike U.S. targets, but the Houthi attack on MV True Calling shows that harming Americans has become a “normal.” He said that Israel is still suffering the pain of October 7, and that the attack on Israel has “opened the gate towards the end of the Zionist entity.”