Advocation of Rape
The "Pretty Woman" law in the Talmud refers to the Eishet Yefat To'ar (beautiful captive woman) ordinance, primarily discussed in Deuteronomy 21:10–14 and detailed in the Talmudic tractates Kiddushin 21b-22a and Yevamot 47b-48b. This law sets out strict procedures for a Jewish soldier who desires a non-Jewish woman captured during wartime.
This concept is portrayed in a children's cartoon used by Israeli school in which a brother and sister pretending to play war, and his sister starts coming on to him while pretending to be a conquered Arab woman. He initially refuses but then eludes to the so called ''pretty women law''.
Rape during the Nakba
Lawyer, Khaled Mahajneh: “I have been in this profession for 15 years … I never expected to hear about rape of prisoners or humiliations like that... When he [client] talked about rapes, I asked him, ‘Muhammad, you’re a journalist, are you sure about this?’” Mahajneh recounted. “But he said he saw it with his own eyes, and that what he was telling me was only a small part of what was happening there.”
(Forementioned) A video leaked of IDF soldiers picking out a prisoner at Sde Teiman, then sodomizing him with a baton behind a wall of sheilds to obstroct view from the camera.)
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.
Adult male detainee, aged 41 years: ''They made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire - I have burns [in the anus]. The soldiers hit me with their shoes on my chest and used something like a metal stick that had a small nail on the side...They asked us to drink from the toilet and made the dogs attack us... There were people who were detained and killed - maybe nine of them. One of them died after they put the electric stick up his [anus]. He got so sick; we saw worms coming out of his body and then he died.''
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)
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.” According 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 - Journalist, Jeff Blankfort: ''When I was in Jordan in August, 1970 and invited to stay overnight at Schneller Camp outside of Amman by a young PLO guard, I noticed that his upper body was covered with scars. When I asked him about them he described how he had been arrested by the Israelis and accused of being a fedayeen which he wasn’t at the time, and when he wouldn’t give them the information they wanted, they burned him with cigarettes and broke both his arms at the elbows. He then became a fedayeen. 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)
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.
Mustafa Dirani - In 1994, Lebanese guerrilla leader, Mustafa Dirani, was detained in Israel. After a prisoner swap in 2004, he testified that Israeli interrogators tortued him in a round-the-clock effort to extract information on a missing Israeli aviator. Dirani testified that interrogators kept him naked and shackled in a secret facility for a month as six men tortured him, splashing him with hot and freezing water, that he had his testicles squeezed he felt he ''would die,'' that he was shackled and pushed down onto a bench and raped, then later was, again raped, this time with a baton, and that they forced him to drink castor oil, which made him incontinent, and gave him large diapers as his only clothing.
“It’s impossible to describe the pain. I yelled to high heaven.”
2003 Abductions - (Quds Press) In 2003, occupation forces started a heavy abduction campaign among the wives of resistance fighters and women affiliated to university groups, with the aim of dampening the determination of the abducted fighters or to extract information. Palestinian sources: “These arrests have been accompanied by aggressive physical assaults and rape attempts, which is an unprecedented dangerous move.” The wife of Falah Nada, a resistance fighter, was taken away from her seven children and dragged to prison cells, where she was tortured in front of her husband to force him to confess to fabricated crimes. Asma Hamed, wife of wanted Palestinian fighter Ibrahim Hamed, was taken away from her two children Ali and Salma and dragged to prison where they tortured her to force her to give information about the whereabouts of her husband. They threatened that she will be sent to Jordan because she doesn’t possess an Israeli identity. Ibtihal Youssef, from the village of Kharbatha Bani Hareth, student of the Al Quds University was subjected to a violent and humiliating interrogation. Amany Saeed, from the village of Al Yamoun, and student in the same university was also put in administrative detention.
Khawla al-Azraq - Khawla al-Azraq, who was a teenager at the time: “I remember he brought his chair closer, opened his legs and sat very close to me. It was something ugly for me. It made me feel that he was trying to attack my body... They would sit in a way to be very close to us, to touch our bodies. I remember it was terrible for me at that age,” Al-Azraq is a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council. Since the age of 14, she has been arrested by Israeli forces four times for her involvement with Fatah and taking part in protests against the Israeli occupation. When she was only 18, she was sentenced to three years in prison. “When I was a mother, it was so difficult. I can’t express in words how I was feeling at the time,” al-Azraq said of her 25-day interrogation in 1991 for her participation in protests during the First Intifada. According to al-Azraq, during the same period her sister-in-law was killed by Israeli forces. Al-Azraq said that some women she knows, who had been raped in Israeli custody in the early 1970s, still struggle to talk about their experiences. “Sometimes they feel shame, even though we know that they are our enemy and they do this to break us,”
Sahar Francis - Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights group: “The torture, ill treatment, and degrading treatment start from the first moment of the arrest... The interrogator will shout in their faces, try to intimidate them with some sexual words and insults, or start teasing them if they’re married, asking her what her husband is doing while she is imprisoned... It’s not something that’s done by an individual soldier who decided to humiliate or mistreat [the prisoners],” she said. “It’s part of the process, part of the policy, in order to affect the entire society and put it under pressure… because they are aware that [gender] is a sensitive subject in Palestinian society.”
Francis also highlighted rarer cases of imprisoned pregnant women, saying that at least two Palestinians had given birth while in Israeli custody: “It is a very humiliating process. Imagine that they tie you to the bed right until you’re about to give birth and immediately after giving birth, they will handcuff one hand and one leg back to the bed... They won’t allow a family member to be present. Imagine a stranger, a policewoman, is standing beside your bed while you’re giving birth.” Francis added that children under the age of two can accompany their mothers in prison, yet there are few arrangements made for the children’s well-being.
Shireen Issawi - Lawyer, Shireen Issawi who spent 5 years in Israeli prison, including 4 for transferring money to Palestinian prisoners: “Sometimes the interrogator will talk to us in a sexual way, and they will use her (the female soldier) to say that we are lying when we say they beat us... When I had my period, they just gave me paper tissues... They didn’t take into consideration that we have special needs, that our bodies are not like men’s. I didn’t have any rights as a woman... We took the role of the nurse, the doctor, the social worker... When the children came to prison, we took care of them, we gave them clothes. Sometimes they called us ‘mamma’.”
Khitam Saafin - Khitam Saafin, the leader of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees; spent three months in administrative detention without being charged; accused Israeli soldiers of taking photos of her on their phones, as well as strip-searching her, during her arrest. She describes the process as being part of Israeli policy: “They are exhausted; they suffer a lot; they are alone without any older people to take care of them and they are the ones mostly targeted with sexual harassment,”
Israa Jaabis’s - Due to a car accident, 65% of her body was burned and eight of her fingers needed to be amputated: “The prison system says it offers the basic medical service, but honestly we think not, because the main treatment they offer for anything is a painkiller, unless you reach a really serious condition...”
2016 report - A 2016 report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), an Israeli human rights organisation, estimated that some 4% of male respondents had been subjected to some form of sexual torture.
The Committee to Protect Journalists - The Committee to Protect Journalists surveyed 59 Palestinian journalists who had been released by the Israeli authorities after Oct. 7. 3% said they had been raped and 29% said they had endured other forms of sexual violence.
Muhammad Arab - (𓃠) Journalist, Muhammad Arab, to lawyer, Khaled Mahajneh: ''Arab also testified to his lawyer that Israeli guards sexually assaulted six prisoners with a stick in front of the other detainees after they had violated prison orders. “When he talked about rapes, I asked him, ‘Muhammad, you’re a journalist, are you sure about this?’” Mahajneh recounted. “But he said he saw it with his own eyes, and that what he was telling me was only a small part of what was happening there.”
Save the Children - Save the Children statistics reveal that 86% of children in administrative detention experienced beatings, 70% faced threats of harm, 60% endured solitary confinement, and an equal percentage suffered physical assaults with sticks or guns. Shockingly, 69% reported being strip-searched during interrogation, with some disclosing incidents of sexual violence. Children were denied adequate food or healthcare, 70% said they suffered from hunger and 68% said they didn’t receive any healthcare. (𓃠)
''Some children report violence of a sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages.''
Mia Schem - October. 7 hostage Mia Schem could not recount any instance of rape while in captivity, but described her captors as "raping you with his eyes".
One of the first things she did when she got back was get a rhinoscopy to make her nose less Jewish.
Then, in May 2025, she came out stating that a fitness trainer had drugged and raped her. She stated in a televised interview that after surviving the darkness of Hamas tunnels, she faced a new nightmare back home. Although un named, the rapist is said to be a well-known, prominent Tel Aviv-based fitness trainer, social media influencer, and fitness studio owner.
Abigail Weinberg - Abigail Weinberg, an Israeli recruit of Chinese descent, was gang raped in Gaza by her fellow Israeli soldiers.
In 2005, Israel's Parliamentary Inquiry Committee commissioned a report on the sex trade in Israel, finding that some 3,000 and 5,000 women are smuggled to Israel annually and sold into the prostitution industry, where they are constantly subjected to violence and abuse. The report, issued annually, said some 10,000 such women then resided in about 300 to 400 brothels throughout the country, traded for about $8,000 to $10,000, in an industry raking in more than $1B a year.
In 2006, the UN named Israel as one of the main destinations in the world for trafficking women. US State Department annual Trafficking in Persons report in 2011 ranked Israel in the same category as thrid world countries such as Pakistan and Rwanda.
The only issue the Knesset had with sex trafficking to Israel was that it threatened the majority Jewish population. There's a university paper on this.
Arie Scher - In 2000 Israeli Vice-consel, Arie Scher, fled Brazil for Israel after a CP video belonging to a Hebrew Language teacher was found to have been filmed in his apartment. Police said the pictures had been published on the internet with the apparent aim of attracting Israeli businessmen to Rio de Janeiro. Some videos depicted children as young as 8 being Rd to death. (𓃠) The case busted open when Steinberg posted a picture of a 17 year-old on the internet which he swore he wouldn't share, and she ended up seeing it. They found caches of CP and in the background of the pictures was the Israeli consulate's pool showing that it had taken place on government property. Scher fled to Israel and Israeli prime minister Ahud Barak did nothing and tried to pass him off to Australia. Barak is on film leaving Epstein's NY mansion followed by a bunch of young girls, and had meetings with Epstein a total off 36 times.
Andres Roemer - Mexican-Jewish diplomat Andres Roemer has been accused of rape by 61 women. In 2021 he evaded conviction by moving to Israel. (𓃠)
Trafficking women from Eastern Europe - Ukrainian refugees can'tt attain citizenship or refugee status in Israel due to the ethnicity based law of return, yet 15,000 Ukrainian, mainly women, remain in Israel.
In 1998 it was noted that more than 95% of the women deported from Israel for Illegal prostitution were repatriated to the former Soviet Union. That same year, a NYT article detailed the story of an impoverished Ukrainian woman who was lured to Israel, where a newspaper article had promised her work. Upon arriving she was driven to a brothel, where her boss burned her passport before her eyes, stating: "I own you. You are my property, and you will work until you earn your way out. don't try to leave. You have no papers, and you don't speak Hebrew. You will be arrested and deported. Then we will get you and bring you back."
The Times quoted Israeli brothel owner Jacob Golan, as saying: ''Israelis love Russian girls,'' said Jacob Golan, who owns this and two other clubs, and spoke willingly about the business he finds so ''successful.'' ''They are blonde and good-looking and different from us,'' he said, chuckling as he drew his hand over his black hair. ''And they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for money.'' (𓃠)
In 1998, the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior estimated that 400,000 Ukrainian women were trafficked during the previous decade (𓃠)
In 2015 a sex trafficking ring was discovered, in which young Russian and Ukrainian women would be lured to Israel on tourist visas, where they would then be pimped out from luxury condominium towers and expensive hotels. (𓃠)
In 2022 a deputy Mayor of a central Israeli city was interrogated by police for allegedly trafficking a Ukrainian woman into the country for prostitution, amid a network of trafficked and smuggled Ukrainian and Russian women throughout the Middle East. (𓃠)
In 2023 Israeli police uncovered a sex trafficking ring which lured impoverished Ukrainian women to Israel, forcing them into prostitution. The investigation indicated that the women were forced to use drugs provided to them by the suspects, so that they could "work" for longer hours to increase profits. (𓃠)
Colombia Rings - In 2018 a child prostitution ring was uncovered, run by Israelis in Columbia. At least 250 underage girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were branded with tattoos and showcased in catalogues. The ring sold tour packages for Israelis with destinations, (𓃠) where minors were forced to attend sex parties on luxury yachts and hotels. (𓃠) The parties were aimed at Israeli businessmen and recently discharged soldiers. Victims of the ring were forced to join a WhatsApp group called “Purim,” presumably named for the drunken celebrations that take place around the Jewish holiday. (𓃠)
Ayia Napa Case - In July 2019, a 19-year-old British woman reported to the Cyprus Police that she had been gang-raped by 12 Israeli tourists in an Ayia Napa hotel room. After being interrogated by Cypriot police for eight hours without a lawyer or welfare support, she signed a retraction. The Israeli men were released and flew home to a champagne welcome.
Second Cyprus case - In September 2023, a separate 20-year-old British tourist reported that she was abducted from a pool party and gang-raped by five Israeli men (aged 19 and 20, from Majd al-Krum) in an Ayia Napa hotel. In March 2025, the Famagusta Criminal Court acquitted the five Israeli defendants on all counts, ordering their release after they had spent a year and a half in custody. The panel of three judges ruled that the complainant's testimony was unreliable and contained numerous significant contradictions regarding identification.
Lev Tahor - In 2022 a Jewish cult lead by Israeli dual citizens was discovered to be practicing child marriage in Mexico. Two of its members were arrested for rape and human trafficking.
In 2024 160 children were rescued from a Lev Tahor compound in Guatemala. After the raid, the groups leaders were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez said they were allegedly being abused by a member of the sect. (𓃠)
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By: If Americans Knew, Uprooted Palestinians, Ryan Dawson, The UN, EuroMed, Save the children...
Raped by: Otto Heckel
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