My new, distressing interpretation of Handala as rape victim is a product of the obscene levels of violence Palestinians face during the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The weaponization of sexual violence has long been a tactic of war against Palestinian men, women, and children to increase their trauma and humiliation, but it is now being documented on a horrific scale.
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