１６歳少女を３０人が列つくり性的暴行、イスラエル版「ＭｅＴｏｏ」運動に火

【エルサレムＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラエルで、16歳の少女に対して男ら約30人が列をつくって性的暴行を繰り広げたとされる事件を受け、世界的な「#MeToo（私も）」運動に共鳴した怒りの抗議活動が繰り広げられている。（写真はイスラエル・テルアビブで開かれた女性への性暴力に抗議するデモに参加する女性）
　紅海に面したリゾート都市エイラートで発生したと伝えられた事件は、その度を超えた残虐さのため、過去の性的暴行に関する証言を共有しようと女性たちが名乗りを上げた。
　「Ｍｏｒｅ　Ｔｈａｎ　３０（３０人超）」運動の主催者は、「政策立案者らに対して、私たちの社会の問題がわずか３０人ほどのレイプ犯だけではないこと」を伝えようと、また性的虐待が凶悪な一事件よりもはるかにまん延していることを示そうと、この運動で人々に呼びかけていると説明する。
　女性の権利向上を目指す運動「女性の行進」のイスラエル組織「Ｍｉｔｓａｄ　Ｈａｎａｓｈｉｍ」はフェイスブックに、「すべての女性は、この国に３０人超のレイプ犯がいることを知っている」と投稿。
　同団体は性的暴力を受けた被害者に対し、ソーシャルメディア上で加害者のファーストネームと暴行を受けた時点での自分の年齢を記載するよう求め、ヘブライ語とイスラエルの第２言語であるアラビア語の両言語で、「女性への暴力に関するデータはあるが、今こそ名前と統計を結び付ける時だ」と訴えた。
　暴行を受けた被害者らは、簡潔ながら衝撃的な内容を記述。
　運動の首唱者の一人、ルティ・クラインさん（２９）は、短くも残酷な投稿の一例として、「ヨナタン、私が１７歳の時。タクシードライバー、２０歳の時。そして父、私が５歳の時」と読み上げた。
　運動家らは、こうした証言が性的暴力の規模や影響を示すことになればと願っている。
　クラインさんは「私たちはこの長いリストを政府に提出する予定だ」とし、「暴力を目の当たりにして、政策を変えるという女性組織の要求を、政府が受け入れるよう求める」と述べた。
　今月起きたエイラートでの集団暴行事件は、当初、ほとんど注目されていなかった。
　地元メディアは２０日、２０代とみられる容疑者らが、少女が泊まっていたホテルの寝室外で列をつくって順番を待ちながら暴行に及んでいたと報道。同日夜には、同国の複数の都市で抗議デモが行われた。
　イスラエルのレイプクライシスセンター協会によると、警察当局は、 同国で性的暴行を受けた人々の数が毎年８万４０００人に上り 、１日当たりの被害者数は２３０人と推定しているという。
　女性の権利団体「ＨａＳｔｉｃｋｅｒｉｏｔ」の共同設立者、イラーナ・ワイツマン氏は、「イスラエルでは女性の５人に１人が、一生の間にレイプされる。そして３人に１人が性的暴行を受ける」とし、「性的暴力はすべての女性に影響をもたらす」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/08/31-13:16）

Allegations of a horrific hotel gang-rape in Israel where 30 men reportedly waited in line to assault a teenage girl have triggered an outraged campaign echoing the global #MeToo movement.
The extreme barbarity of the reported attack in Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat has prompted women to come forward to share their testimonies of sexual assault.
The More Than 30 campaign urges people to show that sexual abuse is far more widespread than one outrageous case, to tell the decision-makers that the problem of our society is not just about 30 rapists, organisers say.
Every woman knows that there are more than 30 rapists in the country, said the Mitsad Hanashim -- Women's March -- group on its Facebook page.
It urges victims of sexual violence to list on social media the first names of their attackers, as well as their age at the time they were assaulted.
There is data on violence against women, but it is now time to link the statistics with names, the group said, writing in both Hebrew and Arabic, Israel's second language.
- 'Crime against humanity' -
Victims of attacks provide short but shocking descriptions.
Yonathan, when I was 17; a taxi driver at 20; or even Dad when I was five, said Ruty Klein, one of initiators of the campaign, reading out a sample of some of the brief but brutal messages.
Campaigners hope that the testimonies will show the scale and impact of sexual attacks.
We will give this long list to the government, said 29-year-old Klein.
We will ask it to accept the demands of women's associations to change policy in the face of violence, she added.
The alleged gang-rape earlier this month of a 16-year-old girl in the seaside town of Eilat had initially gone unnoticed.
Then on August 20, local media reported that the alleged perpetrators, said to be in their 20s, had queued outside the teenager's hotel bedroom, awaiting their turn to rape her.
The same evening, protests broke out in several Israeli cities.
Last Sunday, thousands of Israelis went on strike, holding a symbolic hour-long work stoppage to protest the growing violence against women and girls in Israel, and lack of sufficient punishment, organisers said.
It is shocking ? there is no other word, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
It is not only a crime against the girl, it is a crime against humanity itself that deserves all condemnation ? and those responsible must be brought to justice.
In less than a week, the More Than 30 campaign -- or Yoter mi shloshim in Hebrew -- has collected more than a thousand testimonials, said Klein.
The shock of the gang-rape in Eilat reminded us that we are all together in the same boat, she said.
From the moment you no longer feel alone, you begin to speak. Then another is added, and then another.
The list of testimonies continues to grow, she added.
- 'Catalyst' -
The protests feed into a wider movement resulting in an awakening of conscience in Israel, said Ilana Weizman, who co-founded the women?s rights group HaStickeriot.
Weizman said it was inspired by Les Colleuses, feminist campaigners in France who daubed streets with the names of the men who had attacked them, and painted slogans denouncing the culture of rape.
For the past two months, Israeli campaigners have been posting feminist slogans on the walls of cities across the country.
Lo ze lo (no means no), and at lo levad (you are not alone), they read.
A lot of women come and tell us that they want to write their testimony -- with the name of their rapist, Weizman said.
That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
But while the shock at the reports from Eilat can act as a catalyst, Weizman warns it is important not to forget that sexual assault is taking place every day, in homes and in families, hidden from view.
According to The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, police estimate the number of women assaulted each year in the country at 84,000, or 230 per day.
One in five women will be raped in her lifetime in Israel, and one in three women will be sexually assaulted, Weizman said.
Sexual violence affects all women.