A Quest for Justice
A Quest for Justice
“A Quest for Justice, October 7 and Beyond" is the first comprehensive legal and evidentiary framework to analyze the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
“A Quest for Justice, October 7 and Beyond" is the first comprehensive legal and evidentiary framework to analyze the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
Unlike prior reports that focused on documenting atrocities, this book builds a legal blueprint for prosecuting these crimes, even when direct attribution to individual perpetrators is impossible to prove.
What makes this report different?
Others stop at human rights 3 language, we map the legal doctrines (joint criminal enterprise, derivative liability) that can unlock actual court cases.
Others focus on local justice, we target international mechanisms, from protocols to the UN blacklist.
Led by an all-women team of globally recognized experts in law and gender, “A Quest for Justice, October 7 and Beyond" challenges governments, the ICC, the UN, and human rights bodies to act:
- To prosecute Hamas for crimes against humanity
- To blacklist Hamas under UN mechanisms for using sexual violence as a war tactic
- To shift international legal standards for how conflict-related sexual violence is addressed- in Israel and beyond
This is not an Israeli government paper.
This is not a human rights NGO report.
This is a globally relevant legal intervention that could shape how courts, UN bodies, and prosecutors worldwide approach sexual violence as a weapon of war.
“A Quest for Justice: October 7 and Beyond”– the first legal and evidentiary blueprint showing how to prosecute the systematic sexual violence committed during the October 7 attacks by Hamas as part of a genocidal campaign.
What’s the new, unreported, original element here?
This is not “another human rights report.”
This is the first global legal blueprint explaining how to prosecute sexual violence as a weapon of war- even when evidence is messy, survivors are gone, and individual perpetrators can’t be tied to individual acts.
Drawing on survivors’ and other testimonies, forensic evidence, international law, and criminal responsibility doctrines (including joint criminal enterprise and derivative liability), the book argues that sexual violence was not incidental, but part of a deliberate genocidal strategy.
The evidence we have gathered leaves no doubt: sexual violence was deliberately deployed as a weapon of war on October 7th, demanding a new framework for justice and accountability.
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari,
Judge (Ret.) Nava Ben-Or,
Att. Col (Res.) Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas
Authors
Nurit Jacobs-Yinon
Visual Editor
Eetta Prince-Gibson
Linguistic Editor
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari,
Judge (Ret.) Nava Ben-Or,
Att. Col (Res.) Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas
Authors
Nurit Jacobs-Yinon
Visual Editor
Eetta Prince-Gibson
Linguistic Editor
