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On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Israel–Hamas war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. [7]
During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, dozens of Israeli women, girls, and men were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [1] The militants involved in the attack are accused of having committed acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A group of United Nations experts expressed alarm regarding the increasing volume of allegations of sexual violence reportedly perpetrated by armed groups against women and girls in Israel on October 7, 2023, and reports of sexual assault and threats of sexual violence against women in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. [7]
Retrieved 10 January 2023. Since Russia's soldiers first stormed Ukraine, women have been gang-raped, men castrated, children sexually abused, and civilians forced to parade naked in the streets, according to the United Nations. ^ "Russia's 'most hidden crime' in Ukraine war: Rape of women, girls, men and boys".
1821 →. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 was unanimously adopted on 19 June 2008. It condemns the use of sexual violence as a tool of war, and declares that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide”.
Australia has stripped senior defence commanders of military honours over alleged war crimes committed under their watch in Afghanistan. In parliament on Thursday, Defence Minister Richard Marles ...
Killing of Hind Rajab. Hind Rajab (Arabic: هند رجب; 2017/2018 – 29 January 2024) was a six-year-old [a] Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by Israeli forces (IDF), during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The IDF also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming for her rescue.
During the Israel–Hamas war, Israel has systematically tortured Palestinians detained in its prison system. This torture has been reported by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, [1][2][3] as well as Israeli nonprofit human rights organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights Israel and B'Tselem. [4][5]