🚨Israel's +972 newspaper reports 6 new cases of IDF soldier RAPING kidnapped Palestinian civilians at the Sde Teiman prison camp & forcing the rest to watch.
The 6th report this year, making these incidents of rape systematic & widespread (i.e. crime against humanity) 🧵
2\ NYTimes reported in June that Israel is RAPING kidnapped Gazans in the Sde Teiman prison camp:
A Gazan died after penetration by an electric stick
A female IDF officer ordered the rape of a senior Gazan nurse
A UN worker forced to sit on a "hot metal stick"
3\ Last April, Haaretz reported multiple rapes:
"They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other prisoners"
4\In Feb, UN experts reported at least two cases of Gazan women being kidnapped by the IDF & raped in detention.
The report didn't receive any significant mainstream media coverage & passed unnoticed.
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5\ In March, a Canadian doctor was informed of a case of a Gazan woman who "was raped for 2 days [by the IDF] until she lost her ability to speak". Another "was stripped of her clothing by Israeli soldiers in front of her husband & brother", when they protested, IDF killed both
middleeastmonitor.com/20240324-women…
6\ In June, the UN found evidence of systematic Israeli sexual violence against Gazan women, CHILDREN & men "as a matter of policy"!
This included women being stripped down to their underwear & sexually harassed while male relatives are forced to watch
IDF soldiers sexually harassing minor girls in front of their male relatives & forcing women at gun point to strip down to their underwear, some are groped & touched.
Women who refuse are beaten, abused, detained for days & threatened to shoot to kill their children.
Female Israeli soldier forced boys to dance semi-naked & filmed them while laughing...
7\ Last Dec, ex-Senior US State Department official Josh Paul revealed the IDF raped a 13-year-old Palestinian boy.
When the US State Dep complained to Israel, the IDF raided the NGO that documented the case of rape, "removed their computers & declared them a TERRORIST ENTITY"!
8\ Also last Dec, released Palestinian detainees testified that Israel was subjecting them to brutal treatment, including sexual assault & rape.
The testimony was not covered by any mainstream media!
9\ In June, a Gazan survivor of the Sde Teiman detention camp said Israeli soldiers made dogs sexually assault & rape kidnaped Palestinians.
+972 is the first Israeli publication to report his testimony.
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