Rape during the Nakba
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Interviews by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian with Palestinian women reveal that Rape was commonplace throughout the 1948 Nakba.
According to Israeli historian Illan Pappé, “The Jewish soldiers who took part in the [Deir Yasin] massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive in houses, and men stabbed to death.”
Military Archives uncovered by Historian Benny Morris reveal the same thing.
Israel's first minister of agriculture, Aharon Zizling, is quoted as saying that although he "can forgive instances of rape [in the Palestinian city of Ramleh] … I will not forgive other acts." (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine)
Admissions of rape against Palestinians during the Nakba in 2022 documentary Tantura: 𓃠
rapes, one committed against a 14-year-old Palestinian girl, that occurred during the Safsaf massacre in October of 1948.
The rape and murder of a Bedouin girl by IDF Soldiers - In 1949 an unnamed teenage Bedouin girl was abducted by IDF soldiers of the Nirim military outpost in the Negev desert, and kept as a sex slave, being raped by at least 5 soldiers including the platoon's commander and sergeant before being murdered and buried in a shallow grave the next morning.
The trials for those accountable took place in secret. After drawing up a three-day gang-rape schedule by which his three squads to alternate, the platoon's commander was sentenced to 15 years in jail for; The other 19 soldiers involved received sentences between one and three years, however only one soldier was convicted of rape, and sentenced to two and a half years.
This was recorded in the military court testimonies of 20 soldiers, obtained by Haaretz; also referenced in an entry of former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s diary. (𓃠)
Rape in Captured hospitals
Aliya Khan - UOSSM board member Dr Aliya Khan relays a report from Canadian volunteer doctors that after Al-Khair hospital was attacked a paramedic informed them that a woman was raped for two days until she lost her ability to speak; a woman at the Nasr Hospital was stripped by Israeli soldiers in front of her husband and brother, and when one of them took their clothes off to cover her the both the brother and husband were killed. (𓃠)
Al-Shifa - On 18 March 2024, the IDF raided Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city. According to the testemony of a husband of a woman Al-Shifa: “A husband and wife, along with their young children who were displaced, sought shelter at Al-Shifa Hospital. The pregnant wife was forcibly undressed by Israeli forces despite informing them of her pregnancy; they continued to kick her. Then , they assaulted and raped her in front of her family and other men, threatening to shoot her husband and the other men if they closed their eyes.” (𓃠,𓃠)
Sexual Harassment of detained men, women and minors
PCATI testimonies - The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has collected thousands of testimonies of Palestinian men allegedly tortured sexually or otherwise by Israeli authorities. Of 60 cases during 2005-2012, 36 report verbal sexual harassment towards either Palestinian men and boys or their family; 35 report cases of forced nudity. There are six testimonies of Israeli officials involved in the sexual assault of arrested or imprisoned Palestinian men, including pressing and/or kicking the genitals, simulated rape, and real rape with a blunt object. (𓃠)
CPFP testimonies - The PLO’s CPFP reports testimonies from Palestinian minors detained at Maggedo Prison, stating that they were subject to sexual harassment by officers Israel's Nahshon Battalion, including being stripped, and threats of rape. (𓃠)
Ahed Tamini recording - 16 year old Ahed Tamini who was arrested in a night raid for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier who critically injured her cousin on their property. In a beach of Israeli law, a woman was not present at her trial, where two men can be seen on film sexually threatening her. (𓃠)
Baraah Abo Ramouz - According to Palestinian journalist Baraah Abo Ramouz, who spent time in an Israeli prison: “The situation in the prisons is devastating. The prisoners are abused. They are being constantly beaten. They’re being sexually assaulted. They are being raped. I’m not exaggerating. The prisoners are being raped.” (𓃠)
Three detainees - In November 2023, Palestinian prisoners were released in a hostage exchange, three of which were interviewed by Btselem. According to their testimonies, they were removed from their homes violently in the middle of the night without charges, blindfolded and painfully handcuffed, then transferred between prisons. The testimonies include, being lectured about October 7, beating, spitting, choking, threats of rape, strip searching, deprival of food, water and sanitary sanitary needs, sleep deprivation applying handcuffs and tying hands to the point of discomfort. Then a female soldier came and took me to another room with more female soldiers, who told me: “Welcome to hell.”
The testimonies mention multiple other girls being subjected to the same conditions, and similarities on those making the arrests. (𓃠)
Josh Paul - According to former US State Department official Josh Paul, after he and his colleagues received credible evidence that Israeli forces had raped a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Al-Moskibiyya detention center, Israel raided the offices of the human rights group that passed the information on to the State Department, later declaring it a terrorist organization. (𓃠) Ajluni family - On 10 July, between 25–30 Israeli soldiers burst into the Ajluni family’s home, forcing five Palestinian women to strip naked at gunpoint and threatening to unleash army attack dogs on them.
One woman named Amal was taken into a private room with her children and forced to take off her clothes. The report states: “the children also had to witness their mother being ordered to turn around while naked as she sobbed over the humiliation. About 10 minutes later she and the children were taken out of the room pale and trembling.” (𓃠)
UN report - A UN report released on 19 February 2024 states: "We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence."
They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.
Younis al-Hamlawi testimony - According to detainee Younis al-Hamlawi, during the interogation of Mr. Bakr a female officer had ordered two soldiers to lift him up and press his rectum against a metal stick that was fixed to the ground. Mr. al-Hamlawi said the stick penetrated his rectum for roughly five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him with “unbearable pain.” Accoring to a leaked draft of an UNRWA report read by the NYT, a 41-year-old detainee recounted interrogators me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and also said that another detainee “died after they put the electric stick up” his anus. (𓃠,𓃠)
Jeff Blankfort - A woman, who was active and leader of a women’s group, told me that when she refused to talk the Israeli soldiers raped her daughter in front of her and then asked her what kind of a mother she was to allow her daughter to be raped by withholding information. (𓃠)
Sexually targeting Palestinian women - (𓃠)
Woman testimony - (𓃠)
Khawla al-Azraq testomony - (𓃠)
Shireen Issawi testimony - (𓃠)
Khitam Saafin testimony - The leader of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, spent three months in administrative detention without ever being charged. She claims that during her time, Israeli soldiers of took photos of her on their cell phones and strip-searched her. She describes the process as being part of Israeli policy.
Sexual violence against children - Some children have reported violence of a sexual nature, and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages, the London-based child rights organisation said.
Gang Rape - According to Dr Yoel Donchin at Sde Teiman prison, a prisoner was gang-raped by Israeli soldiers so much that he endured severe anal trauma, fractured ribs, and a ruptured bowel, necessitating immediate surgery. (𓃠) Sex in exchange for Israeli work permit
In 2017 an Israeli military officer was imprisoned for raping a Palestinian woman, committing sexual assault against other Palestinian women and a man, and extorting them for sexual favors in exchange for permits to enter and work in Israel. (𓃠)
Zionists advocation of Rape
When asked ‘Is it allowed in our days for an IDF soldier, for example, to rape girls during a fight, or is such a thing forbidden?’ Colonel Eyal Karim of the Military Rabbinate wrote: ‘The wars of Israel are mitzvah wars, and as such differ from the rest of the wars that Gentile nations wage among themselves and therefore the value of the individual is erased for the benefit of the whole, and even though fraternizing with a gentile woman is a very serious matter, it is permitted during wartime due to the hardship endured by the warriors…’ (𓃠)
Defending Rape of hostages - The Knesset defending the rape of Palestinian prisoners: 𓃠. After 9 IDF soldiers were detained for raping Palestinian prisoners, a mob of Settlers including Knesset members Zvi Sukkot and Nassimi Vaturi, broke into Sde Teiman to try and free the perpetrators. (𓃠) On the same day a different group including Knesset members Tally Gotliv and Yitzhak Kroizer went to another military base to raid the court their. (𓃠,𓃠) Israel's finance minister Ben-Gvir praised these soldiers as "true heroes". (𓃠)
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