David: "Sheryl let me ask because I think it's important to note, some people will counter and say, look at this article from Grayzone, they said Western media promoted a UN report as proof Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis yet the report's authors admitted they couldn't locate a single victim suggested Israeli official staged a rape scene and denounced inaccurate forensic interpretations, I just want to give you an opportunity to respond to Grayzone's article because I think a lot of folks have pointed to that article and the articles that organization has put out as being representative of an alternative view that the sexual violence may maybe didn't happen. Maybe you can address it, give you a chance to do that."
Sheryl: "Yeah, the key thing you said there is they're asking where are the victims? Well, let me tell you where the victims are, they're dead! They're dead. That is why we call this films 'Screams before Silence'.
I have a story in this film, this woman, Tali. I went with her to the trailer where she hid. She was at the Nova festival. She's a nurse. She hid in a trailer. I walked in with her to that trailer. The first time she'd been in there and you could see her body shake. And she picked up a black sweater, I think she might've been wearing that sweater, I was afraid to ask her, she was shaking. She hid in that trailer for five, six, seven hours.
And she heard: sometimes she would hear like a little scream, like, ah, someone's pointing a gun at you and a shot. But sometimes she would hear screams over and over and over, stop, stop for long period, like 15 minutes and then a shot. And then when she got out of that trailer, there were naked bodies where she heard those screams
The victims are dead...
There is exactly one person who is a released hostage. Her name is Amit Sasana. She gave a video interview. You all saw it. We have the only video interview in this documentary and she tells her story very clearly.
She was held hostage for months. She was chained to a bed and as she said it her captor forced to commit a sexual act on her. She told me she's speaking out because there are still hostages there, but she is the only living witness to speak out. We think there are a few more who are in deep trauma.
There were 1200 people killed and at least dozens of them were sexually brutalized assaulted, and that is why they're not speaking out."
David: "What is the social and political motivation of a group like Grayzone and other appointed deniers? What are they trying to accomplish by denying?"
Sheryl: "They're trying to accomplish their narrative that October 7th was justified resistance, the sexual violence doesn't fit the narrative.
I want to be clear, the sexual violence was multiple locations, systematic, meets the definition of a war crime, a crime against humanity, and was part of the plan."
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Cheryl, let me ask, because I think it's important to note some people will counter and say,
look at this article from Grayzone. They said, Western media promoted a UN report as proof Hamas
sexually assaulted Israelis. Yet the report's authors admitted they couldn't locate a single
victim, suggested Israeli officials staged a rape scene and denounced inaccurate forensic
interpretations. I just want to give you an opportunity to respond to Grayzone's article,
because I think a lot of folks have pointed to that article and the articles that that
organization has put out as being representative of an alternative view that the sexual violence
maybe didn't happen, as evidenced in your film. Maybe you can address it,
give you a chance to do that. Neil, the key thing you said there is,
they're asking, where are the victims? Well, let me tell you where the victims are.
Their death. Their death. That is why we called this film Screams Before Silence.
I have a story in this film. This woman, Tali, I went with her to the trailer where she hid.
She was at the NOVA festival. She's a nurse. She hid in a trailer. I walked in with her to that
trailer the first time she'd been in there, and you could see her body shake, and she
picked up a black sweater. I think she might've been wearing that sweater. I was afraid to ask
her, but she was shaking. She hid in that trailer for, I don't know, five, six, seven hours, and she
heard, sometimes she would hear a little scream, like, ah, someone's pointing a gun at you in a
shot, but sometimes she would hear scream over and over and over, stop, stop, and then for,
like, long period, like 15 minutes, and then a shot, and then when she got out of that trailer,
there were naked bodies where she heard those screams. The victims are dead. There is exactly
one person who is a released hostage. Her name is Amit Sasana. She gave a video interview. You
all saw it. We have the only video interview in this documentary, and she tells her story
very clearly. She was held hostage for months. She was chained to a bed, and as she said it,
her captor forced us to commit a sexual act on her, and she told me she's speaking out because
there are still hostages there, but she is the only living witness to speak out. We think there
are a few more who are in deep trauma. There were 1,200 people killed, and at least dozens of them
were sexually brutalized, assaulted, and that is why they're not speaking out.
What is the social and political motivation of a group like Grayzone and other appointed deniers?
What are they trying to accomplish by denying? They're trying to accomplish their narrative
that October 7th was justified resistance. The sexual violence doesn't fit the narrative.
I want to be clear. The sexual violence was multiple locations, systematic,
meets the definition of a war crime, a crime against humanity, and was part of the plan.