What did HasanAbi say about October 7 sexual violence? Streamer's comments during his debate with Ethan Klein explored

Popular internet personalities Hasan "HasanAbi" Piker and Ethan Klein have gone viral on social media after getting together for a debate amid their ongoing feud. A certain moment from their conversation, in which HasanAbi and Ethan Klein discussed the reported sexual violence during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, has received a lot of attention.

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At the one-hour-48-minute mark of the H3 Show, Hasan alleged that Klein had "falsely smeared him as a r**e denier":

"What do you mean? You can't just move on from this. This is a major, major point of contention. You have falsely smeared me as a r**e denier when you yourself, the one evidence, the one instance of sexual violence that we know of up until this point, you and I both agree on. You know that I agree with that. You know that I've talked about it."

While claiming to have shown "two" pieces of evidence supporting the situation, Ethan Klein challenged the Twitch streamer by saying:

"I showed you two. I just showed you two. I showed you two. You deny mass r**es happened, not that r**es happened. You deny that mass r**es happened, not that rapes happened. Listen to my words!"

HasanAbi responded:

"Yes, I do because there is no evidence. The clips that you used, ironically, the reason why I say it's out of context at that point I personally took a position where I said very carefully and very deliberately that mass r**es that are directed by Hamas did not happen. There was no evidence for this, whatsoever, okay?"

Timestamp - 01:48:03

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"No hard evidence of sexual assault" - HasanAbi says during his debate with Ethan Klein

At the one-hour-50-minute mark of the livestream, Ethan Klein displayed The Times of Israel's news report from July 26, 2024, citing Channel 12's reporting of a "growing body of evidence of the systemic sexual assault committed by Hamas."

Asking HasanAbi if he believed the reports of the situation were "lies," the podcaster said:

"Are they all lying? These are five people here. There's three that approached the Ministry and one man who said he was r**ed. Are these all liars?"

Timestamp - 01:50:50

The Turkish-American personality responded:

"I don't know. I don't think they are. But from everything that I have seen, from everything that I've read on this, and I have read extensively on this, as far as forensic examination has been concluded, there is no evidence, no hard evidence of sexual assault."

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Kick streamer Steven "Destiny" has commented on Ethan Klein and HasanAbi's debate, slamming the latter for his thoughts on the October 7 sexual violence reports.