Hard evidence of rape and sexual violence in the evacuated hotels/Knesset channel
Tens of thousands of civilians were evacuated from their homes in the Gaza Envelope and in the north of the country when the war broke out.
Since then, for four months they have been in uncertainty, far from their home and refugees in their country.
If that's not enough, in a special discussion held today (Tuesday) by the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality, a worrying picture of what happened inside the evacuated hotels was revealed.
"Since the beginning of the evacuations, 40 cases of domestic violence have been opened from 380 hotels," said the police representative at the hearing.
Among others, a three-year-old who was stripped, an adult who tumbled in an elevator, and a 23-year-old who had a relationship with a 13-year-old
. Shai Kahan, the deputy head of the government organization for iron sword evacuees at the Prime Minister's Office admitted that there is a pressure cooker phenomenon among the evacuees: "These are concentrations of populations who are against their will in the conditions Not conditions, the feeling of a man who is struggling for resources that the hotel offers his family. There are 56 thousand evacuees who are currently in hotels."
Evacuees at the Carmel Forest Hotel, February 6, 2024/Walla! System, no
"The situation in the hotels is like a pressure cooker," said Kahan, "a large amount of population concentrations who are against their will in conditions that are not ideal, the feeling of a man that he is fighting for the resources that the hotel offers to his family. There are 56 thousand evacuees who are currently in hotels and the rest are evacuees in the community and are in kibbutzim and apartments hires".
According to him, "The pressure pot on the hotels is great and there are real phenomena of internal violence and external forces that penetrate the hotels. We know of cases where a husband and wife were admitted to the same premises even though the husband had an exclusion order. There are struggles between the hotel management and evacuees who violate the hotel's hospitality rules. There is a phenomenon of Children who get up in the morning and don't go to school and the parents are discouraged by this."
The representative of the police at the hearing, Senator Merav Shatz, explained: "When time passed and the pressure cooker increased and the post-trauma loomed, we had a headquarters called Roach Gavit.
There are crimes, there are officers who go around hotels and solve problems.
Since the beginning of the evacuations, 40 cases of domestic violence have been opened from 380 hotels that include violations of exclusion orders, there are serious crimes.
There are 64 cases in cases with a family connection.
There are a total of 116 cases."
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Maya Oberbaum, from the Association of Assistance Centers, presented some of the complaints that came to the union: "An evacuee resident exposed himself and urinated in front of children in front of a hotel, an elderly evacuee resident hit a young girl in an elevator and he was transferred to another hotel in Tel Aviv, an evacuee called and said she was raped by a man who evacuees with her at the hotel. A girl said that she was assaulted by a 15-year-old. A girl reported that someone exposed himself to her in the elevator. There are reports of sexual assaults in educational settings and we received a complaint about a security guard who harassed a girl. Preparatory boys were sexually assaulted by evacuees."
Miri Frank, director of welfare at evacuee hotels in Jerusalem, also revealed problems that arose among teenagers and said that young people sexually assaulted girls: "There was a 23-year-old man who was in a relationship with a 13-year-old girl and her mother was not aware at all because she was in the chaos of the evacuation."
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