The UN blacklisting of the occupying power “Israel” for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence is a significant step, but accountability and concrete international action remain essential. by Addameer

For many years, and particularly since the beginning of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, Palestinian human rights organizations, including Addameer, have documented hundreds of testimonies and statements revealing horrifying patterns of violations and crimes committed against Palestinian prisoners and detainees inside Israeli prisons, detention camps, and interrogation centers. These crimes have included various forms of physical and psychological torture, sexual assaults, systematic humiliation, forced stripping, threats of rape, sexual harassment, rape, and the use of sexual violence as a tool of abuse, repression, and the breaking of detainees’ will.