A New York Times investigation on Thursday, December 28, described in gruesome detail how Hamas weaponized sexual violence during its multi-pronged October 7 terror assault on Israel. Serious bodily violations were part of the methods used by Hamas, as Lahav 433, Israel’s top national police unit, collected evidence of dozens of cases of abuse. The report was conducted through many investigations with the collection of survivor testimonies of more than 150 witnesses, medical personnel, rape counselors, soldiers, and government officials. All of this was uncovered also with video footage of scans and GPS data from cell phones. Around 30 percent of Israelis killed on October 7 – some 360 out of 1,200 – had attended the Nova Music Festival on a weekend of atrocious mayhem. Many of the victims had their charred remains near the music site.