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During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Israeli women and girls were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [1] [2] [3] The militants involved in the attack are accused of having committed acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity. [4] [5] [6 ...
Women in the Russian invasion of Ukraine § War crimes and violence against women; War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine; References Sources related to mass rape and rape as a weapon of war or military strategy "Russians killed and raped civilians as they fled from Lyman, admits soldier in intercepted call". Ukrainska Pravda. 9 January 2023
v. t. e. Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
The chair of a U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war has said it will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks and will pass along any evidence ...
Crimes against humanity are deliberate acts, such as killing, rape or torture, that cause human suffering, “in a either widespread or systematic way, directed against a civilian population ...
During the 2023–24 Israel–Hamas war, Palestinian women and girls have reportedly faced wartime sexual violence from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. Two Palestinian women reported being raped by male Israeli soldiers while in prison. [1] The IDF has been accused of committing acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes ...
Ukraine has identified 511 people suspected of war crimes since Russia's Feb. 2022 invasion and has already handed down 81 convictions, its prosecutor general said in Kyiv on Thursday. Andriy ...
Hamas was accused of gender-based violence, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. [87] [88] [89] Hamas has denied the allegations of abuse. [85] Shelly Harush, the police officer leading the Israeli investigation recounted to the Times on 2 December 2023 "It's clear now that sexual crimes were part of the planning and the purpose was to ...