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Omaha Steve

(105,289 posts) Thu Mar 13, 2025, 10:28 AM Mar 13

UN report accuses Israel of sexual violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu claims anti-Israel bias

Source: AP

By JAMEY KEATEN
Updated 7:27 AM CDT, March 13, 2025

GENEVA (AP) — United Nations-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The allegations came in one of the most extensive reports of its kind on the issue since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel ignited the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the Human Rights Council, a U.N.-backed body that commissioned the team of independent experts, as an “anti-Israel circus” that “has long been exposed as an antisemitic, rotten, terrorist-supporting, and irrelevant body.” His statement did not address the findings themselves.

The findings by the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which seeks to document in minute detail the allegations and evidence of crimes to bolster accountability for perpetrators, could be used by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court or in other jurisdictions to try to bring justice to victims and their relatives.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-palestinians-sexual-abuse-human-rights-9cb6955b34a86631b30225fe23d5567f

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UN report accuses Israel of sexual violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu claims anti-Israel bias (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 13 OP

What a bullsit report! Beastly Boy Mar 13 #1

LOL. PSPS Mar 13 #2

Contrary to bibi's interpretation, it sounds more like "anti-criminal bias." PSPS Mar 13 #3

The trick is to discover and disclose their crimes. Beastly Boy Mar 13 #4

Beastly Boy

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1. What a bullsit report!

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Thu Mar 13, 2025, 12:08 PM

Mar 13

While the so-called 'experts" extensively cite various international laws, what follows has nothing to do with them. They were hardly able to find a couple of dozen alleged instances gender-related violence in the course of a year and a half of the war, most of them not going beyond mere allegations of IDF involvement, so they concocted their own bullshit formulation of sex crimes: " the disproportionate violence against women and children resulting from Israel’s method of war" and "harms resulting from the Israeli Security Forces’ deliberate attacks on sexual and reproductive health care facilities and the collapsed health care infrastructure in Gaza.", none of which are covered by the international laws they cited. ( https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session58/a-hrc-58-crp-6.pdf )

The UN is making a mockery of the international law. No wonder they are losing credibility by the day.