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Screams Before Silence: A Film that Bears Witness
“ When a documentary film about the weaponisation of rape on October 7 was
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screened in Sydney and Melbourne in May 2024, I invited a number of Catholics to be part
of the audience and posted this review of it on ” LightofTorah.net, with uptake on social media. Mercator published it on 6 May 2024 under the
title ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’.
Screams Before Silence is a harrowing, yet sensitively crafted and ultimately viewable, documentary film about the weaponisation of rape by Hamas during the atrocities committed on October 7.
Produced by Kastina Communications and directed by Anat Stalinsky, the film provides a platform for the testimonies of survivors, eyewitnesses, first responders and forensic experts to be heard by the general public as they recount what they saw or heard and, in some cases, endured as a result of the attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel. In a rampage of killing in streets, homes, kibbutzim and at a music festival, some 1200 Israelis were murdered, thousands more wounded and 240 hostages taken to Gaza.
Make no mistake: the subject matter is distressing in what it reveals of the extent to which the bodies of women and girls
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