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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 ...
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.
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”.
Hamas was accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity through the usage of gender-based violence as a weapon of war. [10] [17] Hamas has issued a blanket denial. [18] Testimonies emerged and videos reached the army containing testimonies that, in addition to the murders, Hamas employed methods of severe torture that included ...
Death of Anush Apetyan. Anush Apetyan (Armenian: Անուշ Ապետյան), (1986 – 13 or 14 September 2022) was an Armenian soldier who was tortured, mutilated, raped [1] [2] [3] and killed by Azerbaijani forces during the September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes in the city of Jermuk. [3] [4] [5] Apetyan had three children, aged 16, 15 ...
War crimes in Afghanistan. War crimes in Afghanistan covers the period of conflict from 1979 to the present. Starting with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, 40 years of civil war in various forms has wracked Afghanistan. War crimes have been committed by all sides. Since the Taliban 's emergence in the 1990s, its crimes include ...
Ochota massacre. / 52.210; 20.971. The Ochota Massacre (in Polish: Rzeź Ochoty – "Ochota slaughter") was a wave of German-orchestrated mass murder, looting, arson, torture and rape, which swept through the Warsaw district of Ochota from 4–25 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. The principal perpetrators of these war crimes were the ...
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor he would seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.