UN blacklists Israel for sexual violence in conflict zones: Envoy
The United Nations has reportedly added Israeli entities to its blacklist of offenders responsible for sexual violence in conflict zones after years of reports regarding torture, degrading treatment, and sexual violence inside Israeli prisons and military detention centers.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon revealed the UN’s decision in a post on social media.
The UN is expected to announce the decision soon and add several Israeli entities, including the Israeli Prison Service, to the blacklist.
Danon, announced that Israel would freeze cooperation with the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over what he described as a politically motivated decision.
“This is a political decision! Disconnected from the facts and reality!” he wrote, adding that Israel has submitted evidence to refute the UN reports.
Human rights organizations, investigative reports, and testimonies from detainees have for months documented a sharp rise in reports of sexual abuse and humiliation by Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison personnel since the start of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza in October 2023.
Back in March, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, reported that “brutal beatings, sexual violence, rape, lethal mistreatment, starvation, and the systematic deprivation of the most basic human conditions have inflicted profound and lasting scars on the bodies and minds of tens of thousands of Palestinians and their loved ones.”
Since October 2023, abduction of Palestinians in the occupied territory had “escalated dramatically,” with more than 18,500 people arrested, including at least 1,500 children, the report added.
The results of an investigation by The New York Times, published on May 11, also detailed allegations that Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison guards subjected Palestinian detainees to rape, sexual abuse of children, physical torture, degrading treatment, and other forms of mistreatment.
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UN blacklists Israel for sexual violence in conflict zones: Envoy
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