The United Nations report accuses the Israeli forces of “genocide”, sexual violence in Gaza and the West Bank

Tel Aviv – The United Nations report published on Thursday accuses the Israeli military forces of engaging in “sexual and arguing forms and other forms of sex -based violence against the Palestinians” in The war tape torn by the war and The West Bank occupied Since the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Council a report It also claims that the Israeli forces committed “genocide” in the war against Hamas, which was raised by the United States and Israeli assigned by the terrorist group on October 7, 2023 on Israel.

When submitting the last claim, the Council cited what it called “the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive health care facilities”, including maternity wings and the basic fertility clinic in Gaza.

In a statement shared by his office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuted his office, angry with the report and attacked the council as a “anti -Semitic body, corrupt, supporting terrorism and relevant.”

“The United Nations is once again choosing to attack the state of Israel on a wrong charge, including the baseless accusations,” the statement said.

“It is one of the worst cases of blood defamation that the world has ever witnessed (and the world has witnessed a lot),” Israel’s foreign minister, Orine Marmmstein, said in a social media position. “He accuses the victims of the crimes committed against them.”

The explosive report was published slightly more than a year after a United Nations expert in sexual violence was published Hamas was accused of similar actsAnd saying that there are “reasonable reasons for belief”, sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred in several locations during a terrorist attack on October 7.

This previous report, by the United Nations Special Envoy on Sexual Violence, Bramela Patten, said that there is also a reason for the belief that the sexual assault on the Israeli hostages who are still detained in Gaza are “continuing.”

UN experts conducted an interview with dozens of witnesses and reviewed thousands of pictures and 50 hours of the video that were filmed during the terrorist attack, but Patten said that the team was unable to meet any survivors of sexual violence.

Hamas rejected these allegations.

Navi Pillay, who heads the United Nations investigation committee behind the report, which was published on Thursday, said it had gathered evidence to “reveal an impressive increase in sexual and sexual violence by the Israeli forces.

“There is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has used sexual and sexual violence against the Palestinians to intimidate them and sustain a system of persecution that undermines its right to self -determination,” Pelay said.

The report documents a wide range of accusations against the Israeli security forces, claiming crimes against Palestinian women and girls, but also men and boys in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank occupied by the Israeli.

The United Nations Committee cited incidents of the alleged, nudity, sexual harassment, rape, rape and violence of the genitals, which claim to have become “the usual operating measures towards the Palestinians” and “committed either under explicit orders or implicit encouragement by the Upper and military leadership of Israel.”

The results of the committee were published two days after the general listening sessions in Geneva, which included a certificate of alleged victims, witnesses, medical employees, academics and lawyers.

Rami Inuscio

Ramy Inocency is a foreign correspondent for CBS News in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the network in 2019 as a correspondent for CBS News’ ASIA, based in Beijing and reports throughout the Asia Pacific region, bringing two decades of work experience and travel between Asia and the United States.