KIBBUTZ BE’ERI REJECTS OCTOBER 7 RAPE CLAIMS IN NYT EXPOSE: REPORT

Wed 06 March 2024:

Two of the three people specifically singled out by the New York Times in an expose about rape during the October 7 attacks were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to a report by the Intercept news organisation.

A spokesperson for Kibbutz Be’eri, which the Times identified as the location of the attack, told the Intercept that the slain girls, aged 13 and 16, “were shot and not subjected to sexual abuse”.

The Intercept said this rejection further undermines the credibility of The Times’s controversial December article, “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponised Sexual Violence on Oct. 7”.

WATCH: THE UNRAVELLING OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S ‘HAMAS RAPE’ STORY

The teenagers at Be’eri were among three alleged victims of sexual assault for whom The Times reported specific biographical information, according to The Intercept. The third was a woman named Gal Abdush, whose family members contested the Times’s claims after the article’s publication.

In the report, the Times presents unnamed “neighbors” at Kibbutz Be’eri who “said their bodies had been found alone, separated from the rest of their family.” According to the family, however, not even that detail is accurate.

A recent interview in the Israeli media with the Sharabi sisters’ grandparents offers details that directly contradict the Times reporting that the girls at Kibbutz Be’eri were sexually assaulted on October 7. “They were just shot — nothing else had been done to them,” their grandmother Gillian Brisley told Channel 12. (A U.K.-based lawyer for the Brisley family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) The family also gave several interviews to international news outlets before “Screams Without Words” was published that provided information that undercuts the assertions in the Times article, raising questions about why the paper did not include these publicly available details.

The Brisley family and relatives in Israel who lived with the Sharabis at Kibbutz Be’eri have never asserted that the girls were sexually assaulted. In numerous interviews, the Brisleys have maintained the girls were killed alongside their mother.

Read The Intercept article:

KIBBUTZ BE’ERI REJECTS STORY IN NEW YORK TIMES OCTOBER 7 EXPOSÉ: “THEY WERE NOT SEXUALLY ABUSED”

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