Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Israel–Hamas war
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During the 2023–24 Israel–Hamas war, Israeli forces committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinians women and men; including rape and torture.[1][2] Two Palestinian women reported being raped by male Israeli soldiers while in prison. Palestinian men have also been raped and subjected to torture, and in some cases the torture has led to the victim's death.[3][4][5][6][7]
In its legally mandated June 2024 investigative report, the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (CoI) concluded: "The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated against Palestinians since 7 October across the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) indicate that specific forms of Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are part of Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operating procedures."[8]
In August 2024 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".[9][10] The report includes extensive testimonies from Palestinians.[10] The Guardian also interviewed Palestinian detainees, and reported they "back up [the] report by rights group B’Tselem, which says jails should now be labelled ‘torture camps’."[11]