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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Profile picture
@FranceskAlbs
May 15 • 22 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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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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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Profile picture
Feb 17
1/5 For 2+yrs pro🇮🇱 lobbyists have orchestrated a defamation campaign against me including by chopping my statements/decontextualizing my words so as to project me as someone who: justifies Oct 7 atrocities, denies crimes such as sexual violence, downplays the hostages'plight.
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2/5 I have been closely monitored across dozens of countries, hundreds of events, thousands of interviews. When my words were chopped & decontextualized, few fact-checked, fewer reported or corrected. The culprits never apologized: emboldened by impunity, they continued.
3/5 Example: at a book talk in Catania🇮🇹, I explained how Israel justifies the targeting and annihilation of doctors and civil servants, by labeling them "Hamas". My words were twisted to make it seem I said "Hamas are good, they run schools!"
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Aug 9, 2025
1. Norway's position on Palestine epitomises the contradiction of our times.

Norway has one of the most active and mature civil society in Europe when it comes to Palestine, critical media, engaged intellectuals and the government has taken very important steps on Palestine. Image
2. Yet, its Pension Fund, which ammasses the wealth generated by the country oil sale, is robustly invested in Israel's economy of occupation. Nearly 10% of its total value is invested in 45 companies I have investigated in my last report.

See para 77: un.org/unispal/docume…
3. This stands in stark contrast with Norway's obligations under intl law and may even trigger liability given the intl crimes involved.

I alerted the government and the Pension/Oil Fund itself, which has an Ethical Council that should have prevented/averted such investments. Image
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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Profile picture
Jul 15, 2025
On what is happening in Brussels 🇪🇺:

1/ "Historic" would be a meeting leading to the end of the genocide, the dismantling of Israel’s forever-occupation and apartheid, and the beginning of justice and accountability— in line with int'l law, and as per ICJ and ICC proceedings. Meanwhile...
2/ The EU Foreign Affairs Council is legally bound to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Debating whether Israel is violating human rights under Article 2 is not only superfluous - it is grotesque. The matter has already been settled by the ICJ and multiple UN bodies. Since decades.
2/
 The impact of the suspension would be seismic. Economic leverage is the single most powerful tool the EU holds to end Israel’s illegal occupation and ongoing genocide. New research confirms that the EU is not only Israel’s largest trading partner, but also its largest investment partner, nearly double the size of the US.
🔗 somo.nl/economic-sanct…
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Jul 15, 2025
❌BREAKING❌
1/#Rafael, Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer, has actively supported the genocide in Gaza. Now, in an utter display of cruelty, it uses footage of Palestinians being killed as a marketing tool to promote kamikaze drones. It is IMPUNITY that fuels such depravity.
2/ On the eve of the review of the EU-Israel agreement, it is imperative to denounce the illegality of collaboration with companies that engage in criminal activities, implying war crimes (at a minimum), crimes against humanity, and genocide. consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/fa…
3/One example of how the system of impunity thrives: EU #Horizon funds Rafael through a project involving the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Tel Aviv University. Among the partners are several institutions, including the Port Authority of Ravenna (Italy).
🔗 cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101…
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Jan 9, 2025
🧵 Independence and honesty are powerful tools against injustice.
@UN_SPExperts serve pro bono at the request of the @UN_HRC, documenting/reporting on human rights violations, often at great personal cost. We act based on knowledge of int'l law and profound belief that applying the Law equally, without double standards, can make the world a better place. Here are some examples of my colleagues' outstanding contributions on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in these most critical times:
@MichaelFakhri, SR Food, at the HRC 2024 (his clips are generally for the ages): instagram.com/farah.nabulsi/…
(i.e. like this one): instagram.com/reel/DEkg8Muuj…
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Apr 2, 2024
THREAD:
1. Anatomy of a genocide sketched out.

ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
2. "Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted foundational rules of international humanitarian law - distinction, proportionality and precaution - in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against the Palestinian people."
3. “By deliberately redefining the categories of human shields, evacuation orders, safe zones, collateral damage and medical protection, Israel has used their protective functions as ‘humanitarian camouflage’ to conceal its genocidal campaign,” she said.
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