New video contradicts Israeli medic's account of 7 October sexual assault, report says
The New York Times has cast doubt on its own reporting of an alleged episode of sexual assault during the 7 October Hamas-led attacks by admitting that new video footage appears to contradict the account of an Israeli paramedic quoted by the newspaper.
Footage taken from an Israeli soldier who was in Kibbutz Be'eri, where the alleged assault was supposed to have taken place, shows the bodies of three female victims, fully clothed and with no apparent signs of sexual violence, according to the US paper.
The bodies are reportedly shown at a home where many of Be'eri's residents had believed the assaults occurred.
On 28 December, the New York Times published an article headlined, "'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7," in which an unnamed paramedic, part of an Israeli commando unit, said that he had discovered the bodies of two partially clothed teenage girls who had been sexually assaulted.
