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A NYT article on sexual abuse against Palestinians -accurate but barely scratching the surface- is triggering hysteria in the Israeli govt not bcs of the facts, but bcs of the audience.
Apartheid Israel fears NYT readers will finally see and no longer ignore.
2/ Israel's abuses against Palestinians did not begin on October 7. Sexual violence against Palestinians has been documented since the very foundation of the Israeli state, but this is nothing the NYT spoke about – so far.
3/ Below are just some of the many reports and investigations documenting sexual violence specifically in the context of Israel’s unlawful detention of Palestinians; and these cover only abuses documented since October 2023. The reality is far older.
4/ In my report Torture and Genocide (March 2026), I documented how sexual violence in Israeli detention is rife against men, women and children alike.
ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
5/Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (March 2024)
Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Committed by Israeli Military & Security Forces against Palestinians
phr.org.il/en/sexual-gend…
6/UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ''Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza, October 2023-June 2024'' (July 2024)
ohchr.org/sites/default/…
7/Amnesty International (July 2024)
Israel must end mass incommunicado detention and torture of Palestinians from Gaza
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
8/ HRW -Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured (August 2024)
hrw.org/news/2024/08/2…
Al Jazeera - ‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape (August 2024)
aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/…
9/Al Jazeera
Investigating war crimes in Gaza (October 2024)
youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A?si…
Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel, One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death (November 2024)
aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2…
10/ Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (February 2025)
The Plight of Gaza’s Medical Workers in Israeli Custody
phr.org.il/wp-content/upl…
The Guardian - ‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
theguardian.com/global-develop…
11/Independent International Commission of Inquiry on oPt/ Israel (March 2025)
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023
ohchr.org/sites/default/…
12/ Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR),
Torture and Genocide (May 2025)
The Shattered-Futures of-Former Palestinian-Detainees in Gaza
palestinechronicle.com/shattered-futu…
13/B’tselem - Our Genocide (July 2025)
btselem.org/sites/default/…
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and Israel -
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip (September 2025)
ohchr.org/sites/default/…
14/ The Guardian - At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials (October 2025)
theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…
15/ Quarterly Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture
What is there left after losing oneself?”: 100 testimonies of genocidal torture from Gaza
researchgate.net/publication/39…
16/ Middle East Monitor -Autistic Palestinian boy allegedly sexually assaulted in Israeli prison (November 2025)
middleeastmonitor.com/20251113-autis…
17/ Synergy for Justice
Sexual Violence under settler colonialism - Structural, political, and racialised violence against Palestinians
synergy-for-justice.cdn.prismic.io/synergy-for-ju…
18/November 2025
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)
Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documents…
Novara media- Mohammed Arab, Dogs to rape Palestinians
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/isr…
19/ Addameer, Al Mezan and Al-Haq, System of Domination: Israel’s Use of Torture and Arbitrary Detention (December 2025) alhaq.org/cached_uploads…
20/ Committee to Protect Journalists
Palestinian journalists recount abuse in Israeli prisons, CPJ report finds (February 2026)
cpj.org/2026/02/palest…
21/ Euro-med Human Rights Monitor
“Another genocide behind walls”: Sexual violence in Israeli prisons and detention centres and engineered impunity (October 2023 - October 2025) (April 2026)
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/702…
22/ Al Jazeera - Palestinians expose torture and sexual violence in Israeli detention (May 2026)
Palestinian detainees and rights groups share disturbing accounts of rape, sexual violence and physical abuse.
aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/7/…
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