A bipartisan group of 33 U.S. senators is calling on the United Nations to set up an independent investigation into reports that Hamas terrorists committed acts of sexual violence during their Oct. 7 attacks across southern Israel.
In a Dec. 11 letter to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, the senators criticized the U.N.’s proposal to hand the task of investigating allegations of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attacks over to its permanent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI).
