Weaponized Sexual Violence: Rights Group Urges Accountability for Israel

A leaked video showing Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee from Gaza has emerged. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is urging the UN to blacklist Israel implicit systematic intersexual unit and obstruction of investigations into alleged warfare crimes.

The grounds for the inclusion of Israel connected the UN’s blacklist of entities suspected of perpetrating intersexual unit successful conflicts “are compelling,” the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said.

At the aforesaid time, the rights radical slammed Israel’s “consistent obstructions of each United Nations investigations” into allegations of rape and different forms of intersexual unit since October 7, 2023, arsenic “profoundly concerning.”

“These obstructions, coupled with important grounds indicating systematic and wide acts of rape and different forms of intersexual unit by Israeli forces against Palestinians, including prisoners and detainees, represent sedate violations of planetary humanitarian and quality rights law,” Euro-Med said successful its latest study connected Friday.

‘To Avoid Inquiry into Abuse’

Euro-Med Monitor cited the Israeli Haaretz paper arsenic reporting connected Wednesday that Israel has blocked a UN probe into “Hamassexual crimes” from October 7, to “avoid enquiry into the maltreatment of Palestinians.”

Israel indispensable beryllium added to UN’s intersexual unit blacklist https://t.co/9bWgP4cMLw

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) January 10, 2025

The UN’s peculiar typical connected conflict-related intersexual violence, Pramila Patten, “asked to analyse Hamas’ alleged crimes connected October 7 and towards the hostages, but Israel refused her petition to entree Israeli detention facilities to analyse claims of IDF abuse,” reported Haaretz.

“Israeli women’s rights groups pass this could pb to Israel, alternatively of Hamas, being added to the UN’s intersexual unit blacklist,” it added.

Concerns astir Exposure

Euro-Med Monitor said this refusal “reportedly stems from concerns that a broad probe would exposure Israel’s systematic usage of wide rape against Palestinians, including women and children, arsenic Patten had insisted that entree to Israeli detention centres to analyse allegations against Israeli soldiers was a important request for the process.”

Israel’s refusal “is peculiarly striking,” added the rights body, fixed that Israeli civilian society, until recently, “held a mostly favourable presumption of Patten, and adjacent called connected her to revisit Israel.”

Israel blocks UN probe into Hamas intersexual crimes from October 7 to debar enquiry into maltreatment of Palestinianshttps://t.co/683hBUMghb

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) January 9, 2025

Euro-Med Monitor noted that Patten’s earlier report, published connected March 11, 2024, marked “the lone instance” successful which the Israeli authorities has provided accusation to a UN enquiry into allegations of intersexual violence. However, arsenic intelligibly stated successful the report, the mission’s mandate astatine that clip was not investigative, it added.

‘Obstruction of Truth’

The study recommended that the Israeli authorities cooperate with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) connected the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), including East Jerusalem and Israel, arsenic good arsenic the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), to facilitate broad investigations into each alleged violations, said the organization, “especially aft Israel denied these entities entree and cooperation, arsenic highlighted successful the report.”

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“The Israeli obstruction of information successful this discourse was archetypal evidenced successful January 2024, erstwhile the Israeli authorities expressly prohibited Israeli doctors and applicable authorities from cooperating with the UN Commission of Inquiry connected the Occupied Palestinian Territory, labeling the committee arsenic ‘anti-Israeli and antisemitic,’” said Euro-Med Monitor.

Since then, according to the rights group, the Israeli authorities has “persistently maintained this obstructive stance, undermining the Commission’s efforts to behaviour a thorough and impartial investigation.”

Manufacturing Consent

This, said Euro-Med Monitor, “constitutes a nonaccomplishment by Israel” to comply with its work nether planetary instrumentality to cooperate with UN bodies. Israel was “also denying victims connected some sides their close to justness and accountability for the alleged violations,” it said.

“Israel’s repeated refusal to cooperate with each UN investigations into intersexual unit highlights the Israeli government’s exploitation of the allegations of this sedate transgression arsenic a propaganda instrumentality to manufacture consent for its full-fledged, live-streamed genocide,” said Ramy Abdu, Chairman of Euro-Med Monitor.

"A worker forced a caregiver to instrumentality disconnected her trousers, past placed his manus connected her. When she tried to resist, helium struck her hard crossed the face"

Harrowing testimonies of tract executions, intersexual harassment by the Israeli service successful bluish Gazahttps://t.co/1jEYJVOa2A

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) January 7, 2025

“Israel simply uses these allegations to shame and smear critics and deflect blasted from its formidable crimes against humanity,” Abdu emphasized.

Euro-Med Monitor said that its squad has, implicit the past 15 months, documented galore instances of Israeli-perpetrated intersexual violence, including rape and different forms of sexualized torture against Palestinian civilians, including individuals held astatine the notorious Sde Teiman detention center.

Rape by Police Dogs

The rights assemblage cited astatine slightest 1 documented lawsuit of a Palestinian detainee who was subjected to rape by Israeli constabulary dogs astatine Sde Teiman.

“The soldiers aboriginal pulled a young antheral sitting to my right, forced him to slumber connected the ground, and tied his hands and feet. Suddenly, the concern soldiers fto escaped trained constabulary dogs connected the young man, who was subjected to rape by the dogs,” lawyer Fadi Saif al-Din Bakr, released connected February 22, 2024 aft 45 days of detention, told the Euro-Med Monitor team.

Rape and Torture astatine Israel’s Sde Teiman Concentration Camp – Video Analysis

“Throughout the full ordeal I endured, this was among the astir atrocious things that I witnessed,” the lawyer said.

Euro-Med Monitor besides highlighted the lawsuit astatine Sde Teiman wherever a Palestinian detainee died aft having been raped with a baton by Israeli concern soldiers.

“These documented incidents supply beardown grounds of the systematic and wide quality of specified atrocities, revealing that Israel has weaponised intersexual unit arsenic a deliberate maneuver to destruct the Palestinian population’s morale,” emphasized the organization.

“This brutal act, on with galore others, is improbable to beryllium investigated oregon prosecuted wrong Israel, and volition beryllium prevented from planetary scrutiny arsenic Israel continues to artifact investigations into specified crimes,” it added.

Reports by Global Bodies

Numerous reports from international, UN, and Israeli quality rights organizations, including the UN Human Rights Office, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem, person documented Israel’s systematic and wide usage of torture and intersexual unit against Palestinians, the enactment stressed.

Rape of Palestinian Detainees successful Israeli Prisons Systematic – Rights Group Concludes

Euro-Med Monitor besides cited the June 2024 study by the UN CoI connected the oPt, including East Jerusalem and Israel which “reached akin conclusions.”

It documented a “significant summation successful the range, frequency, and severity of intersexual and gender-based unit perpetrated by Israeli Security Forces (ISF) against Palestinians” since October 7, 2023. The study further stated that this summation was “linked to an intent to punish and humiliate Palestinians,” said the rights body.

‘Crime of Genocide’

The Euro-Med Monitor squad besides precocious documented horrific testimonies astatine Kamal Adwan Hospital regarding the intersexual battle of civilians, including pistillate aesculapian unit and children. The victims were forced to region their apparel and headscarves and subjected to humiliating assemblage searches by antheral Israeli service personnel.

“These acts represent components of the transgression of genocide, arsenic outlined successful the Convention connected the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” stated the organization.

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Euro-Med Monitor called connected the United Nations “to see Israel connected its blacklist of entities progressive successful intersexual unit successful conflicts.”

“This telephone comes successful airy of important grounds documenting Israel’s systematic usage of intersexual violence, including rape and different forms of intersexual abuse, arsenic portion of its broader run of annihilation against the Palestinian people,” said the rights body.

(The Palestine Chronicle)