“This report came after failed Zionist attempts to prove this false accusation, which was already found to be baseless and aim to demonize the Palestinian resistance and marginalize the report issued earlier by UN rapporteurs about the presence of conclusive evidence that Palestinian women and girls had been exposed to horrific human rights violations by the Israeli occupation forces,” Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Despite Patten’s claim and her false and unfounded claims against Palestinian resistance fighters, its report did not document any testimony from what she called victims of these incidents. Rather, in its report, it relied on Israeli institutions, soldiers and witnesses chosen by the occupation authorities in an attempt to prove this false accusation, which has been refuted by all international investigations and reports,” Hamas added.

Hamas stressed that Patten’s allegations clearly contradict the testimonies that were made by Israeli women about the good treatment they received from resistance fighters, as well as by Israeli female ex-detainees who asserted that they were treated well during their captivity in Gaza.

“This false accusation will not succeed in obliterating the ugliness and horror of the Zionist crimes that are committed in the Gaza Strip, where about 40,000 Palestinians, most of them women, children and civilians were killed,” the Movement said. (ILKHA)