Christian Sarkis

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This one is brutal, but a must read. The Daily Mail just published testimonies of Gazan children being raped by Hamas-affiliated clerics at local mosques — and then threatened into silence by the Qassam Brigades. A nine-year-old describes being led to mosque restrooms by a Sheikh who said he wanted to "give you something nice." "He took me to the restrooms and undressed me, took off my pants and had his way with me. I started to scream and then I cried," the poor boy said. A ten-year-old recounts a cleric pulling down his pants and doing "filthy things" to him. A third child came home bleeding and bruised from the head Imam of a mosque in Khan Younes. When one father confronted the Imam, the Imam's response was that he'll "send Al-Qassam Brigades to you and they'll shoot you. We'll just say you were an Israeli collaborator." The next night, Hamas members showed up at his home and told the father to stay silent or "we'll wipe you off the face of the earth." Another father in Deir al-Balah went to Hamas security with proof. They forced him to drop the charges, or be framed as an Israeli spy. A former Palestinian Authority security officer explains rape is used as a binding tactic. It makes the victims and their families "obedient and submissive" to Hamas. "If you open your mouth they will destroy you and your entire household," he said. This is so widespread it has a name. In Arabic slang, the perpetrators are called "mosque tennis players" — clerics who lure boys under religious pretexts. According to Gazan author Hamza Abu Howidy, who fled the territory, the pattern is well-known: abuse, silence, and gradual conscription into the Hamas movement. Add this to the Daily Mail's story last week of Hamas terrorists gang-raping widows in Gaza en masse, and you have what's clearly a sexual abuse epidemic led by Hamas. Where is the outrage? Or is Palestinian suffering only newsworthy when it can be blamed on Israel?