Perhaps the most harrowing claim is that Patten met with no Israeli victims of sexual violence from 10/7
This entire report is based on second-hand reports, circumstantial evidence, and propaganda.
What an absolute farce of a “report” and an article
What is “likely occurred”?
Did it occur or did it not occur?
Please recall that Patten was the same person who went from:
Russia using rape as ‘military strategy’ in Ukraine: UN envoy
to
No solid evidence of rape accusations against Russia, admits UN official
Patten has a history of misrepresenting reality to spread a political agenda. With that context in mind, I’ll be taking a closer look at the “evidence” Patten uses to make her claims. Are her sources reliable? Are her sources unbiased? Is there forensic data?
It seems like Patten was hosted by ZAKA’s Yossi Landau. If you don’t know who Yossi Landau is, she’s had a strong record of fabricating extreme claims against Hamas:
Speaking through tears at the Jerusalem Press Club shortly after the attack, Landau described finding a pregnant woman in Kibbutz Be’eri in a “big puddle of blood, face down.” “Her stomach was butchered open,” Landau said. “The baby that was connected to the cord was stabbed.”
In Be’eri, he said, he also found a family who was tied up, tortured, and executed with a bullet to the back of the head: father, mother, and two small children around 6 or 7 years old. An eye was missing, fingers chopped off. Landau later told CNN, “The terrorists were having a ball,” with Palestinian militants devouring a holiday meal set out by the family. Landau broke down recounting the tale, as a CNN reporter comforted him.
Both of these reports were later revealed to be false.
In fact, Haaretz has a lot to say about ZAKA’s role:
The Zaka volunteer group began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack, while the IDF sidelined soldiers trained to retrieve remains. An investigation reveals cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props