Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was harshly criticized after posting a statement on X that implied no one from Hamas raped any women on October 7, 2023, during their barbaric massacre against the Israeli people.

Alsalem was born in Cairo, Egypt, but now identifies as Jordanian.

“No Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza. No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October,” she stated.

No Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza. No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.

— Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) November 14, 2025

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, fired back:

Any UN representative who denies Hamas rape must be removed from their post. Period. It is a stain on the UN’s reputation that Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, denies the sexual violence that took place on October 7. This is a moral disgrace, an insult to the victims and their families, and a violation of every basic international standard. Israel will not allow Hamas’ horrific crimes to be whitewashed. Antonio Guterres, your silence is complicity.

Any UN representative who denies Hamas rape must be removed from their post. Period. It is a stain on the UN’s reputation that Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, denies the sexual violence that took place on October 7.

This is a moral… https://t.co/LIpmZtqZqr

— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) November 15, 2025

A father and son from Gaza openly admitted they raped and murdered Israeli women on October 7. The father admitted raping a woman, adding, “She was screaming, she was crying, I did what I did, I raped her. ‘I threatened her with my gun to take her clothes off, I remember she was wearing jean shorts, that’s about it. I don’t know what happened to her, I was there for fifteen minutes and then I left.”

But his son Abdallah said his father had killed the woman: “My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her. … Before this woman, we had raped another girl as well, I killed two people, I raped two people, and I broke into five houses.”

On October 7th, Hamas didn't just murder, kidnap, and burn civilians. They raped.

​This is the chilling confession from a captured Hamas terrorist:
"She was afraid of me and said, 'Help me.' The devil took over me. I laid her down, started undressing her, and did what I did (I… pic.twitter.com/Z7tKwItBf7

— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) October 16, 2025

Reem Alsalem is saying that she is being "deliberately misrepresented" after people became angry that she made the claim that "No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October."

If you are wondering if the link she included somehow proves that she… pic.twitter.com/WR9kAz8qFR

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 15, 2025

UN Special Rapporteur slash Hamas propagandist Reem Alsalem continues to deny Israelis were raped on October 7.

The @UN and @nytimes, not to mention many Israeli investigations, have confirmed Hamas used sexual violence as a weapon during the 10/7 massacre. https://t.co/AIb8HIWF5X pic.twitter.com/lrhqP3T3uO

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 16, 2025

In March 2024, a mission team led by the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten found that there was substantial evidence to conclude that victims, as well as hostages and survivors of October 7, were sexually abused and raped by Hamas terrorists.

Two weeks before the UN report, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) issued their report, which stated of the multiple rapes, “In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed, and at least two incidents relate to the rape of women’s corpses.”

“Last year in March, Alsalem also denied knowing Israel had been a victim of repeated missile attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah as the terrorist groups launched air barrages on civilian communities across Israel,” the Jerusalem Post noted.

As far back as December 2023, the Lieber Institute at West Point stated, “The New York Times, The Guardian, AP News, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel all mention instances of rape and gang rape in their reports relating to October 7. Other reported acts of sexual violence from these sources include forced nudity, sexual mutilation, and gunshots in the sexual organs and breasts of women.”

The Trump administration is preparing to implement a sweeping and controversial overhaul of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps — an action officials describe as part of a broader effort to increase program integrity and eliminate what they characterize as widespread abuse.

At the center of this initiative is a major requirement announced by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: millions of low-income Americans will be required to reapply for food-stamp benefits, regardless of whether they are already enrolled, have been long-term recipients, or have recently completed eligibility reviews at the state level.

Rollins outlined the plan during an interview on Newsmax, framing it as a necessary step to restore confidence in how federal taxpayer dollars are used.She said she plans plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through … food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”

Rollins has recalled that on the day she took office, she sent a letter to all 50 states saying that the federal government had never asked for the data before, but that it now needed the personal data, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and addresses, of SNAP recipients. She said on X that she sent the letter “so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families,” adding, “The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census.”

“29 states — mostly the red states — responded with their data sets, February, March, April; so the numbers that you’re talking through, those are numbers that we have been collecting and analyzing since early summer/late spring,” she said. “The fact that this spotlight shined on SNAP has allowed us to talk about it. But here’s the most unbelievable news I have [learned] really just over the last few days: That 5,000 dead people, that was just one month; the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”

The administration argues that this mass reapplication process is essential to combating what it calls systemic fraud and error in SNAP. By reprocessing the entire recipient population, officials say they hope to remove ineligible participants, strengthen data accuracy, and reduce government spending.

By placing the mandatory reapplication requirement at the center of the reforms, the administration seeks to redefine SNAP as a program reserved only for those who can clearly demonstrate acute need, reflecting a broader shift toward stricter eligibility enforcement.