Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli detention since December 2024, is in a “dire” health condition, United Nations experts warned as they called for his immediate release.
Genocide does not require mass graves; it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being.
Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition.
“Israel’s military attorney general just gave his soldiers license to rape – so long as the victim is Palestinian,” said one Israeli rights group.
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Administrative detention, a sentence of up to six months in prison with no charge or trial, and indefinitely renewable, is a draconian measure Israel uses against political activists and Palestinians en masse.
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include a nurse deprived of natural light since January, and a teenager held for nine months
Western media amplified Israel’s unverified claims of Hamas “mass rape” while downplaying documented Israeli sexual crimes against Palestinians.
There’s outrage in Israel over the leaked video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. However, the outrage isn’t about the rape itself but the fact that the video was leaked in the first place.
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Under international law, including Article 37(d) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, every child has the right to prompt access to legal assistance and to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. Israel consistently deprives Palestinian kids of this right.