To look at “Screams Before Silence” is to be disabused of any lingering doubts about what Hamas did. The non-public testimonies of sufferers, survivors and eyewitnesses are unclouded and overpowering, as is the photographic proof Sandberg was once proven of mutilated corpses. And a few of them have scarcely been heard about outdoor Israel.
There’s Tali Binner, a partygoer on the Nova track pageant who concealed in a little camper as alternative girls had been raped outdoor: “I heard a girl that started to yell for a long time. It was like, ‘Please don’t. No, no, stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. No. No. No’. It was like, she was asking someone to stop. What can they stop? Someone is abusing her. Someone touching her. Someone is doing something.”
There’s Raz Cohen, who witnessed a rape as he concealed with a pal within the brush: “Shoham, who was next to me, said, ‘He’s stabbing her. He’s slaughtering her,’ or something like that, and I didn’t want to look.” Cohen added, in Hebrew: “When I looked again, she was already dead, and he was still at it. He was still raping her after he had slaughtered her.”
There’s Rami Davidian, an catastrophe scientific colleague on the Nova website online: “I saw girls tied up with their hands behind them to every tree here. Someone murdered them, raped them and abused them, here on these trees. Their legs were spread. Everyone who sees this knows right away that the girls were abused. Someone stripped them. Someone raped them. They inserted all kinds of things into their intimate organs, like wooden boards, iron rods. Over 30 girls were murdered and raped here.”
There’s Amit Soussana, who was once abducted to Gaza for 55 days and raped via her captor when she was once looking to shower: “He came toward me and just pointed a gun really hard at my forehead, screaming at me, ‘Take it off. Take it off,’ and punching me until I could not hold the towel anymore. And he started touching me, and I resisted, and then he dragged me to the bedroom. And then he forced me to commit a sexual act on him.”
