This came in a statement issued Friday evening, in response to a report issued by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday on sexual violence related to armed conflict, which included Hamas' inclusion on the list.
The movement described the move as "legally invalid and contrary to the facts," considering it part of "political double standards that undermine the credibility of the international system."
The movement said in a statement that this listing "lacks any legal basis or reliable evidence, as it was not based on independent and impartial field investigations, nor did it adhere to recognized international standards of proof. Rather, it relied exclusively on politicized and entirely fabricated Israeli narratives, without conducting any impartial investigation or communicating with the alleged victims. This constitutes a blatant violation of the professional principles enshrined in relevant UN resolutions."
International media outlets, including the Associated Press, refuted Israeli allegations of violations committed by Hamas members, stating that Israel relied on forged testimonies.
In contrast, the movement criticized the exclusion of the Israeli occupation army from condemnation and inclusion in the list, "despite the availability of hundreds of documented evidence in the reports of United Nations fact-finding missions, reports by independent international human rights organizations, and special rapporteurs, proving that the occupation forces committed systematic violations of sexual violence against Palestinian civilians, including rape and other forms of sexual assault, in the context of the genocidal war they are waging against the Gaza Strip."
She stated that this duality "represents a dangerous deviation from the principle of equality before international law and a blatant politicization of UN mechanisms, threatening their integrity and transforming them into a tool for whitewashing the occupation's crimes rather than holding it accountable."
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The movement referred to Security Council Resolutions 1820 (2008) and 2467 (2019), which emphasized that all allegations of sexual violence in conflict must be subject to independent and impartial field investigations in accordance with international evidentiary standards, considering that these standards "were not respected in the case of this listing."
Hamas called on the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council to "review this unjust decision and immediately withdraw it from the official records. It also called on the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council to open an independent international investigation under the supervision of an international committee of experts into all allegations of sexual violence related to the conflict with the Israeli occupation. It also called on the enemy's leaders and the commanders of its criminal army to prosecute the crimes of rape and sexual violence against the Palestinian people and prisoners in the occupation's prisons, and to bring them before the International Criminal Court, in accordance with the principle of non-impunity."
The movement emphasized that "the politicization of international justice and double standards in the application of international humanitarian law undermine confidence in the United Nations system and encourage the real perpetrators to continue their crimes without deterrence, exacerbating the suffering of peoples under occupation."
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide left 61,827 Palestinians dead and 155,275 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people were missing, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of 240 people, including 107 children.
