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The New York Times reported on a new video clip that undermines the account of an Israeli military medic who claimed that two teenage girls killed in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on October 7 had been sexually assaulted.

An unnamed medic from an Israeli commando unit, among dozens of people interviewed for a New York Times article on December 28, spoke about allegations of sexual violence and said he discovered the bodies of two partially clothed teenage girls in a house. In Kibbutz Be'eri, they showed signs of sexual violence, Adam Rasgon and Natan Odenheimer reported for the newspaper.

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The Associated Press, CNN, and The Washington Post published similar accounts from a military medic who spoke, on the condition of anonymity, of sexual violence on October 7.

Eyewitnesses deny the paramedic's story

However, footage taken by an Israeli soldier who was in Be'eri on October 7, seen by prominent members of the local community in February, and by the New York Times this month, shows the bodies of three fully clothed female victims with no signs of sexual violence. On them, in a house that many residents believe was attacked.

Although it is unclear whether the paramedic was referring to the same scene, residents said that two teenage girls were not killed in any other house in Be'eri, and they inferred from the video that the girls were not sexually assaulted. Nili Bar Sinai, a member of a kibbutz group, said, Researched allegations of sexual assault at home “This story is false.”

The paramedic later refuses to confirm his story

The paramedic, contacted by The New York Times, refused to say whether he still adhered to the story, saying that he would like to put the attacks behind him.

Later, an Israeli military spokesman said the medic stood by his testimony, but may have misremembered where he saw the teenage girls. The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the October 7 attacks were still under investigation by police, said. The paramedic worked in several villages that weekend and may have seen the two teens in a different kibbutz. The spokesman did not specify any of them.

The medic's account was a prominent example in international news reports of sexual violence on October 7, and the New York Times reported that Be'eri was one of at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appeared to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated, according to the report. Say it.

Source: New York Times