Both female and male Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian women from Gaza and the occupied West Bank – and Israeli citizens were allowed to watch and film the humiliation of stripped prisoners as a ‘zoo’-like form of entertainment – according to testimonies presented during the UN Commission of Inquiry’s public hearing on earlier this month.
Kifaya Khraim, International Advocacy Officer at the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and ‘Witness 3’, a Palestinian woman human rights activist, gave the UN detailed accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli security forces and settlers. The testimony was part of the Commission’s third round of hearings documenting violations against Palestinians, particularly crimes targeting women’s bodies:
Israel has claimed that Israeli women have suffered sexual violence at the hands of Palestinians on 7 October 2023 and since, but these claims have been shown to be either without foundation or proven untrue, both by independent examination of evidence and by United Nations investigators. As the saying goes, it seems that Israeli accusations are a form of confession, exposing the dark mind of settler-colonialism, Zionism and occupation.
I’m not super knowledgeable on Israel’s history, but didn’t they just kinda show up and say, “This is my land now.”
The record of human habitation in what is today Israel dates to the Paleolithic Period. Efforts by Jews to establish a national state there began in the late 19th century. Britain supported Zionism and in 1923 assumed political responsibility for what was then called Palestine. Migration of Jews to this region, which increased during the period of Nazi persecution, led to deteriorating relations with Arabs. In 1947 the UN voted to partition the region into separate Jewish and Arab states. The State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, and Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq immediately declared war on it. Israel won that war (see Arab-Israeli wars) as well as the 1967 Six-Day War, in which it occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and east Jerusalem. Another war with its Arab neighbours followed in 1973, but the Camp David Accords led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979. Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from that country, and in late 1987 an uprising broke out among Palestinians of the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (see intifāḍah). Peace negotiations between Israel and the Arab states and Palestinians began in 1991. Israel and the PLO agreed in 1993 to a five-year plan to extend self-government to the Palestinians of the occupied territories. Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. Israeli soldiers and a Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, clashed throughout the 1990s. Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians broke down amid violence that claimed hundreds of lives. In an effort to stem the fighting, Israel in 2005 withdrew its soldiers and settlers from parts of the West Bank and from all of the Gaza Strip, which came under Palestinian control. In 2006 a Hezbollah operation against Israel resulted in a month-long war in Lebanon. The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians came to a near halt during most of the 2010s, and tension between Hamas, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, and Israel escalated to open fighting several times between 2012 and 2021. Israel and Palestinian militants began a war on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, primarily Israeli citizens, making it the deadliest day for Israel since its independence.
Source for the haters: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Israel#%3A~%3Atext=The+record+of+human+habitation%2Cwhat+was+then+called+Palestine.
Your comment is the biggest lump of misleading reductionism I’ve ever read
Britannica
Ah, the most neutral of sources.
Here’s a better source, and I’m not just going to copy and paste this because it would strip citation links:
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict
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I think it’s more that European powers around the time of WW2, I think it was after tho, decided to create Israel (which I honestly think was for antisemitic reasons like “let’s just make Israel & we can send the Jews there” kinda vibes, Nazi Germany wasn’t alone in the antisemitism), and that was then forced on the people that already lived in the region.
