This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. During the ongoing Gaza war , Israeli male and female soldiers, guards as well as medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian children, women and men [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] including rape, gang-rape, sexualized torture and mutilation. In August , Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem released a report on systematic Israeli abuse, torture, sexual violence and rape of Palestinian detainees, calling the Israeli prison system a "network of torture camps".
Claims of torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence against detained Palestinians by Israel, have been made before the 7 October attacks and invasion of Gaza, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] with documentation recorded by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel PCATI [ 16 ] [ 17 ] and Amnesty International. One threw a slipper at me, so I gave her a kick here pointing to the groin , broke all this here. She can't have children today. Some of them were convicted by military courts.
They felt bitter and betrayed. The UN's Commission of Inquiry concludes in its June report that Israeli sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians precedes October 7 and arises out of the context of the occupation : "SGBV constitutes a major element in the ill-treatment of Palestinians, intended to humiliate the community at large.
This violence is intrinsically linked to the wider context of inequality and prolonged occupation, which have provided the conditions and the rationale for gender-based crimes, to further accentuate the subordination of the occupied people. The Commission notes that these crimes must be addressed by tackling their root.
On 19 February , a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls. The UN report states, "Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers.
