Two United Nations rights experts called for justice for a multitude of alleged crimes, including sexual torture, during Hamas’ offensive attacks in Israel on October 7, AFP reports.

These may even amount to crimes against humanity, they said, pointing to individuals burnt alive and bodies found decapitated, mutilated or with trauma consistent with executions.

“The growing body of evidence about reported sexual violence is particularly harrowing,” the UN special rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, and the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, said in a statement.

“These acts constitute gross violations of international law, amounting to war crimes which, given the number of victims and the extensive premeditation and planning of the attacks, may also qualify as crimes against humanity,”.