Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / January 11, 2024
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Recently, a senior Israeli prosecutor admitted that 15 months since the 7 October 2023 events, Israeli authorities are still unable to identify any alleged victims and won’t be able to prove that these types of attacks took place.
In addition to talking about the latest developments debunking Israel’s 7 October mass rapes claims, we discussed the newest reports of sexual violence by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women.
In the context of Israel’s assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital in December, Israel committed atrocities including “detonating booby-trapped robots near several inhabited homes, causing their collapse and killing civilians inside” as well as “executing civilians on the spot, some of whom were wounded, while others carried white flags,” according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which has collected survivor testimonies.
Testimonies taken by the human rights group also document how Israeli forces “detained dozens of women and girls, subjecting them to severe abuse amounting to sexual harassment, alongside degrading treatment that violated their human dignity.”
This included beating them and forcing them to remove their clothing.
Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine (Haymarket Books)
