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Spanning roughly 250 pages, with hundreds of footnotes and references to more than 10,000 documented items, a new report lays out what it describes as a systematic pattern of sexual violence, humiliation and abuse committed by terrorists and civilians who infiltrated from Gaza during the Oct. 7 massacre and throughout the captivity of hostages held in Gaza.

A new report by Israel’s Civil Commission on Hamas crimes documents systematic sexual violence during the Oct. 7 massacre and captivity in Gaza, citing survivor testimony, forensic evidence and accounts from body identification teams at Shura base

Spanning roughly 250 pages, with hundreds of footnotes and references to more than 10,000 documented items, a new report lays out what it describes as a systematic pattern of sexual violence, humiliation and abuse committed by terrorists and civilians who infiltrated from Gaza during the Oct. 7 massacre and throughout the captivity of hostages held in Gaza.

The report, excerpts of which are being published Tuesday for the first time in ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, details testimony, video documentation and forensic findings pointing to sexual and gender-based crimes at massacre sites, military bases and during the transport and captivity of hostages in Gaza. It identifies recurring patterns indicating that these were not isolated incidents, but acts that were “documented, celebrated and systematically disseminated in order to intensify fear and trauma.”

Some of the findings are based on documentation and testimony from teams involved in identifying bodies at the Shura military base, as well as opinions from pathologists who examined evidence from the day of the attack. These were supplemented by detailed testimony from some of the hostages who returned from Gaza.

At the center of the report is a digital archive cataloging and documenting thousands of videos, photographs and testimonies from survivors, rescue forces and relatives relating to the sexual and gender-based crimes committed by the attackers, who used victims’ bodies to intensify humiliation and terror.

Alongside testimony published in the media and through various documentation initiatives, the commission’s database also includes about 400 testimonies collected independently.

“We wanted the testimony to serve legal purposes, while ensuring the interviews were sensitive to the interviewees’ trauma,” said commission CEO attorney Merav Israeli-Amarant. “After we began reviewing the materials that started flowing in, we understood that our mission was to build an archive of war crimes.”