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UN Council Reviews “Kinocidal” Sexual Violence Report on Hamas

6/27/2026

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Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy presented the “Silenced No More” report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The report introduced the term “kinocidal sexual violence” to label Hamas’s systematic abuse of families.
It enumerates thirteen abuse patterns, such as rape, gang rape, sexual torture, deliberate burning, and facial or genital mutilation.
UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said Israeli victims have faced denial and a lack of compassion from the United Nations system.

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Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy presented the “Silenced No More” report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The report introduced the term “kinocidal sexual violence” to label Hamas’s systematic abuse of families.
It enumerates thirteen abuse patterns, such as rape, gang rape, sexual torture, deliberate burning, and facial or genital mutilation.
UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said Israeli victims have faced denial and a lack of compassion from the United Nations system.