A new massively detailed report demonstrates the patterns by compiling accounts detailing rape by soldiers using bottles, batons, and other sharp objects — even trained dogs.
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The ICC must investigate Israel’s genocidal use of sexual violence
There is a growing body of evidence of the systematic nature of sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees.
We Were Ordered to Kill’: The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don’t Know About
Testimonies from soldiers who fought in the Six-Day War indicate that 300,000 Arabs were expelled or displaced from the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights amid violence, looting and destruction |-Ha’aretz investigation
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.
‘I thought I might die’: A Palestinian mother’s account of Israeli detention
Detained while fleeing northern Gaza, Saeda al-Shrafi recalls weeks of interrogation, torture, and imprisonment that changed her life, as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is marked
Israeli prison authorities are blocking hundreds of solidarity postcards being sent to female Palestinian prisoners
A global campaign led by churches and an Islamic center across 15 U.S. states is sending hundreds of solidarity postcards to female Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, but Israeli prison authorities are blocking them from being delivered.
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organized state policy’
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by ‘highest levels’ of Israeli leadership
More than half of Palestinian child detainees have no charges
51 percent of the total are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, which is both the highest number and the highest proportion on record since Defense for Children International
From Sde Teiman, the truth about Israel’s military justice system has been set free
By dropping all charges against the soldiers filmed abusing a Palestinian detainee, Israel has abandoned the whole masquerade of accountability.
Israeli settlers join ‘safari’ tour of Palestinian prisoners
As Israeli Prison Service serves settlers lunch in its facility, Palestinian prisoner rights groups warn of ongoing starvation amid Ramadan.









