Alex Davies-Jones MP, the Minister for Victims and Violence against Women and Girls, has today condemned the sexual violence against Israelis on October 7 committed by Hamas terrorists and called out women’s groups for failing to condemn it in the aftermath.
She made the comments during a Jewish Women’s Aid event marking International Women’s Day and to launch the charity’s Ripple Effect campaign, highlighting the impact of domestic abuse.
She said that “the abhorrent acts of sexual violence that were committed by Hamas in its attack on southern Israel on 7th of October… were acts of exceptional brutality”.
Describing them as “war crimes carried out in a systematic and pre-emptive manner”, Davies-Jones slammed human and women’s rights groups for downplaying or even ignore them, adding: “It took over seven weeks for the UN Secretary General to call for an investigation into the Hamas campaign of rape. It took UN Women, which says it is dedicated to gender equality and empowerment of women, 50 days to even acknowledge these crimes had occurred.”
