Guardian aware of sexual assaults for which multiple corroborating pieces of evidence exist
- Warning: contains graphic descriptions
In videos from 7 October, the body of a young woman is lying face down in the back of a pickup truck, stripped to her underwear, one leg bent at an unnatural angle. One of the men sitting next to her pulls her long hair as armed men around him shout praises to God.
Footage of the body of Shani Louk, the young Israeli-German national described by her mother as a “very happy, lively person [who] liked music and dancing and living”, being paraded around the streets of Gaza was some of the first to surface on 7 October as the scale of the horror visited on sleeping families in kibbutzim neighbouring the strip and people partying at a nearby rave started to become clear.
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