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AMY SPIRO

"Pramila Patten, the UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, says her office collected information about “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of men and women Palestinian detainees by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, “including sexual violence in the forms of body searches, threats of rape.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-4-2024/

Does this matter or is it okay because Hamas attacked "first"?

"The report said that the U.N. team had also heard accounts of sexual violence against Palestinians that implicated Israeli security forces and settlers.

Palestinian officials and civil society representatives, it said, told the U.N. team of “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Palestinians in detention, including various forms of sexual violence in the form of invasive body searches, threats of rape, and prolonged forced nudity, as well as sexual harassment and threats of rape, during house raids and at checkpoints.”

The U.N. team asked the government of Israel to give access to other U.N. bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian Territory, so they can conduct thorough independent investigations into these allegations.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lior Haiat, said, “Israel rejects the report’s call to investigate Palestinian claims regarding ‘sexual violence by Israeli elements.’”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/worl ... lence.html