Hamas shot female Israeli soldiers ‘in the crotch, intimate parts and breasts’ as part of ‘a systemic genital mutilation’: IDF reveals many victims’ corpses still had agonised looks on their faces

Hamas terrorists shot female Israeli soldiers “in the crotch, private parts and breasts” as part of a “systematic genital mutilation,” the IDF said.

Some female victims of the gunmen who stormed the Israeli border from Gaza on October 7 were left with anguished looks on their faces after their deaths, according to an Israeli unit that helped bless the bodies of those killed in the massacre.

Army Reservist Shari Mendes said many bodies of female victims, both civilians and military, arrived “in bloody, shredded rags or only underwear.”

Mendes spoke Monday at a UN event in New York titled “Hear Our Voices: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the October 7 Hamas terror attack.”

She said: “Our team commander saw several female soldiers shot in the crotch, private parts, vagina or chest,” said army reservist Shari Mendes, whose unit helped bless the bodies of people killed during Hamas' 7 October had been killed. raid.

“This appeared to be a systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims,” added the soldier, whose unit at the Shura army base is preparing the bodies for burial.

“Our team commander saw several female soldiers shot in the crotch, private parts, vagina or chest,” said Army Reservist Shari Mendes.

Mendes said she and her unit were forced to make a decision not to let the families of dead soldiers see their bodies, as the mutilation of the bodies by Hamas “was a goal in their killings.”

“These women arrived with their eyes open, their mouths in grimaces and their fists clenched,” she added.

“The soldiers we were dealing with still had looks of pain on their faces.

'I remember a young woman whose arm was broken in so many places that it was difficult for us to put her arm in the shroud, and her leg too.

“In her case, the entire left side of her body was torn, torn apart, most likely by a grenade.”

Mendes said she and her unit were forced to make a decision not to let the families of dead soldiers see their bodies, as Hamas' mutilation of the bodies was “a target in their killings.”

'Some were shot in the head and bashed so badly that their brains poured out.

“Some were shot in the head so many times at close range that their heads were almost blown off.”

Mendes said the scene before her when she arrived at the Shura army base a day after Hamas killed 1,200 people in the raid was “unimaginable in scale.”

“Body bags were stacked to the ceiling and lined the hallways of every room. Refrigerated trucks were waiting outside, also full.

“Body bags just kept coming in all shapes and sizes. Many were seeping liquids and the floors were wet.

'The smell of death was already unbearable. It is impossible to overstate the number of bodies we had to deal with, the sense of shock and despair.”

Hamas has also been accused of mistreating living hostages as well, with the US claiming the terror group has refused to release ten female hostages because it does not want them to reveal what they were exposed to while held captive.

State Department spokesman Matt Miller said this was the reason the weeklong ceasefire, which came after Hamas agreed to release more than 100 hostages over several days, ended.

The official said Monday: “It appears that one of the reasons why Hamas does not want to extradite women they have held hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is because they do not want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their captivity.'