… be clear, I always believed Hamas raped hostages and likely continues to do so. May God help them. It just didn’t make tactical sense to me that they would risk the Israeli Defense Force’s arrival and certain death by doing it on the festival grounds at that moment… be clear, I always believed Hamas raped hostages and likely continues to do so. May God help them. It just didn’t make tactical sense to me that they would risk the Israeli Defense Force’s arrival and certain death by doing it on the festival grounds at that moment.