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“Rape was mainly done by Israeli female officers inserting objects into the genitals of detainees. We have also documented a case of gang rape by two different soldiers, twice, on a woman in a detention center. She said she was filmed during the assault.” Kifeya Khraim from the Women’s...

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All those stories about the imaginary assualts from Oct 7 while they spin and deny the real incidents. Most evil nation on earth is israel.

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cc @mashagessen when you get the time babe, eat your words

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"The UN was able to verify 31 cases of rape and sexual violence primarily in detention settings, but also at checkpoints and during military operations against 14 men, seven women, nine boys, and one girl from the Gaza Strip and the WestBank. This is part of a pattern of sexual violence against Palestinians, including as a form of torture. Violations consisted of rape, including rape with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breast and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity, and threats of rape. Rape and gang rape were perpetrated against nine of these victims, with four suffering repeated rape on multiple occasions. Explicit threats were made by Israeli armed and security forced warning detainees not to report abuse to media or human rights organizations."

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Israeli civilians were invited to Israeli torture camps to watch nude Palestinians get searched and raped, according to the testimonies of Palestinian women released by the IOF. Both female and male Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian women from Gaza and the West Bank. The testimonies were presented during the UN Commission of Inquiry’s public hearing on March 11, 2025. Kifaya Khraim, International Advocacy Officer at the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and Witness #3, a Palestinian woman human rights defender, provided detailed accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli security forces and settlers. This was part of the Commission's third round of hearings to document violations against Palestinians, with a focus on crimes targeting women’s bodies. Source:
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⚡️BREAKING: New testimonies of sexual violence and harassment conducted by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women. “Some soldiers would touch women's private parts.” “Some of the girls were wearing buttoned shirts. He would stick his hand inside and if she made a sound or screamed, he would hit her on the head” Testimony of a released Palestinian woman captured in Gaza recounts sexual harassment and abuse. Strip searches were conducted on both women and young men, followed by threats of rape and severe interrogations. She was also used as a human shield.
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⚡️BREAKING: New testimonies of sexual violence and harassment conducted by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women. “Some soldiers would touch women's private parts.” “Some of the girls were wearing buttoned shirts. He would stick his hand inside and if she made a sound or screamed, he would hit her on the head” Testimony of a released Palestinian woman captured in Gaza recounts sexual harassment and abuse. Strip searches were conducted on both women and young men, followed by threats of rape and severe interrogations. She was also used as a human shield.

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🔴 The UN Commission of Inquiry found that “forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault” are “standard operating procedure” of Israeli forces toward Palestinians, and that “other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, were committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top civilian and military leadership.” It concluded that “the frequency, prevalence, and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory lead the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress, and destroy the Palestinian people.” 🎥 Video via Zeteo. Mehdi Hasan interviewing UN Commissioner of Inquiry Chris Sidoti.
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Wojaks aside: The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict sent a team to Israel in early 2024. After interviewing witnesses, first responders, medics, and reviewing available forensic material, they said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that rape and gang rape occurred in several locations, especially around the Nova festival and along Road 232. That is the UN’s official standard for confirming that incidents of sexual violence took place. The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry also reviewed the evidence. Their report said there was a “pattern indicative of sexual violence” during the attacks, including cases of rape and sexual assault both at attack sites and in captivity. The Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centers reached the same conclusion after collecting testimonies from professionals who handled the bodies and from survivors. Their report described “systematic, targeted sexual abuse” during the assault. None of these investigations say “there was no rape.” They all say sexual violence happened, even if the total number of cases is still unknown because many victims were killed.
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"Israeli soldiers threatened men in prisons by saying 'we will rape your daughter, we will rape your wife'." In an interview with MEE, legal experts describe the spike in sexual assault of Palestinian women since 7 October at checkpoints, during home raids, and inside prisons.
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Over the last year we have seen a flurry of migrant sex attacks on British women and girls. In multiple of these cases, they use their culture of their home country as a defence. We now are begging to learn of the scale of the Pakistani rape gangs that have terrorised thousands of British girls. Some may say we have actively imported a rape culture to Britain. This phrase, “rape culture” became widely used during lockdown on social media and amongst young women off the back of a feminist campaign to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault within schools. National media covered the crisis that had been revealed. The government launched an immediate inquiry into school safeguarding, the NSPCC launched a helpline called Report Abuse in Education, and the Met Police launched investigations into allegations. It was effectively treated as a national emergency. It was defined to mean anything that normalised or trivialised sexual violence. This could be anything from serious sexual offences such as upskirting, to general misogyny and jokes about sexual assault. The message was that if any of these behaviours were normalised, they could act as a gateway to more extreme acts such as sexual assault and rape. The term was being used so broadly that it led myself and I think many young women in my generation to believe that if a male peer was to make so much as a joke at the expense of women, that without intervention, he could literally go on to be a rapist. Strangely, the same feminists who began and continue with this campaign to end what they call rape culture within schools, seem oddly absent from the actual rape culture that we are importing to the UK. We also know that young women are the main demographic that are in support of open borders. Where is the national emergency about sexual violence from foreign men who come from countries that could far more accurately be described as rape cultures? I will be speaking about this at the Women's Rights Network - WRN national conference on the 5th July in central London. You can get your tickets via the link in the women’s rights network bio.
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We are appalled by The Times and Sunday Times' vicious attempt to silence Israeli victims of sexual violence. Their recent article is not just an insult to journalism, but to the Israeli women who faced and continue to face horrific sexual violence at the hands of Hamas. The authors of the article knew exactly what narrative they were trying to create before they even wrote the article. By denying Hamas' systematic crimes against humanity, the authors of this article are not only ensuring impunity for conflict-related sexual violence but are also discrediting victims of sexual violence everywhere. In case some of you have forgotten, this is what former hostage Amit Soussana experienced as a captive of Hamas. A shameful day for The Times and Sunday Times.
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We are appalled by The Times and Sunday Times' vicious attempt to silence Israeli victims of sexual violence. Their recent article is not just an insult to journalism, but to the Israeli women who faced and continue to face horrific sexual violence at the hands of Hamas. The authors of the article knew exactly what narrative they were trying to create before they even wrote the article. By denying Hamas' systematic crimes against humanity, the authors of this article are not only ensuring impunity for conflict-related sexual violence but are also discrediting victims of sexual violence everywhere. In case some of you have forgotten, this is what former hostage Amit Soussana experienced as a captive of Hamas. A shameful day for The Times and Sunday Times.

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Jeevan Thondaman

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