During a Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacted to the horrific sexual violence carried out by Hamas against Israelis and the UN’s hesitancy to outright condemn the terror group’s actions.
“The atrocities that we saw on Oct. 7 are almost beyond description or beyond our capacity to digest,” Blinken said in a Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“And we’ve talked about them before, but the sexual violence that we saw on Oct. 7 is beyond anything that I’ve ever seen, either.”
The failure to condemn, and in some cases failure to even believe, the reports of sexual violence is something about which “these organizations, these countries need to ask themselves.”
“I don’t know why countries, leaders, international organizations were so slow to focus on this, to bring it to people’s attention,” Blinken responded. “I’m glad it is finally happening.”
Watch the clip above.
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