UN body says Israel obstructed and prevented its access to Palestine to probe war crimes during the war on besieged Gaza and occupied West Bank.
Israeli authorities have systematically targeted and subjected Palestinians to sexual and gender-based violence—both online and in person—since October 7, a UN-backed commission said in aA first-of-its-kind investigation by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – including East Jerusalem – showed that the Israeli military subjected Palestinians to sexual violence through forced public nudity, forced public stripping, sexualised...
The Israeli forces forced public stripping and nudity in many locations, in humiliating circumstances, including when victims were blindfolded, kneeling and/or with their hands tied behind their backs while in underwear. Palestinians were interrogated or subjected to verbal or physical abuse while fully or partially undressed, coerced to do physical movements while naked, and filmed or photographed by the Israeli forces doing any of these acts and disseminating the film and photographs.
Palestinian women were also targeted and subjected to psychological violence and sexual harassment online, including shaming and doxing female detainees and drawing gendered and sexualised graffiti, including at a women’s shelter in Gaza that was directly targeted. In view of the frequency, prevalence and severity of such crimes perpetrated against Palestinians since 7 October across the occupied territory, the report concluded that specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence are part of"ISF operating procedures”.
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