Eric Zuesse – Israel Routinely Rapes Palestinians, and is Now Destroying Lebanon Too
Israel Routinely Rapes Palestinians, and is Now Destroying Lebanon Too
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“More than A Human can Bear” Israel s Systematic Use of Sexual, Reproductive and Other Forms of Gender Based Violence since 7 October 2023, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel”
UN Human Rights Council, 13 March 2025
Conclusions
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Israeli military operations in Gaza have had A disproportionate impact on Palestinian women and girls, who continue to bear the brunt and pay the price for decisions made by those in power while themselves marginalised from decision making and military and political power. The Commission notes in this regard the high and increasing number and proportion of female fatalities in Gaza, which is on an unprecedented scale, and the gender specific harms related to A broad range of violations and crimes that have caused specific and serious bodily and mental harm to women and girls.
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Israel has targeted civilian women and girls directly, acts that constitute the Crime against Humanity of murder and the war crime of wilful killing. Women and girls have also died from complications related to pregnancy and child birth due to the conditions imposed by the Israeli Authorities impacting access to reproductive health care, acts that amount to the Crime against Humanity of Extermination.
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In addition to the disproportionate impact on women and girls as A result of intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, specific gendered harms have been suffered as A result of starvation as A method of Warfare, forcible transfer, Extermination and Collective Punishment.
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Israel s use of starvation as A method of War, the denial of humanitarian assistance and the concerted policy to destroy Gaza s Health Care System, compounded by the lack of water and access to sanitation facilities, have caused severe reproductive harms to women and girls, impacting all aspects of reproduction, including pregnancy, child birth, post partum recovery and lactation. Other reproductive harms include conditions that lead to the inability to manage post partum Bleeding and menstruation hygienically and with dignity.
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As primary caregivers, women have suffered gender specific harms as A result of multiple displacements, deaths of children, separation of families and caring for sick and wounded family members. Pre existing structural discrimination has also exacerbated controlling behaviours from male family members and has impacted women s and girls’ freedom and agency.
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Sexual and reproductive Health Care facilities have been systematically destroyed across Gaza, including maternity hospitals and maternity wards of hospitals and Gaza s main in vitro fertility clinic. Israeli Authorities deliberately destroyed such Health Care facilities rendering them non functional, while simultaneously imposing A siege, and preventing humanitarian assistance at scale, including necessary medications and equipment to ensure safe pregnancies, deliveries and neo natal care. Israeli as Authorities have implemented the systematic denial of approval for patients to exit Gaza and seek treatment elsewhere, including patients with gynaecological cancer. The Commission finds that the Israeli Authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as A group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention.
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The harm for pregnant, lactating and new mothers is of an unprecedented scale in Gaza. Furthermore, the lack of access to sexual and reproductive Health Care has caused immediate physical and mental harm and suffering to women and girls that will have irreversible long term effects on the mental health and the physical reproductive and fertility prospects of the Palestinians in Gaza as A group. The underlying acts amount to Crimes against Humanity and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as A group, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention.
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Israel has systematically used sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender based violence since 7 October 2023. The Commission concludes that there has been A large increase in sexual and gender based crimes perpetrated against Palestinians by members of the ISF since 7 October 2023, intended to retaliate and punish them collectively for the attacks carried out by the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Southern Israel on 7 October.
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Palestinian men and boys have been subjected to specific persecutory acts intended to punish them collectively. The way in which these often sexual acts are committed, including their filming, photographing and dissemination online, in conjunction with similar cases being documented in several locations, shows that forced public stripping and nudity, as well as sexualised torture and ill treatment, are part of the persecutory attack against men and boys committed to punish, humiliate and intimidate Palestinian men and boys into subjugation.
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Israeli detention is characterized by widespread and systematic abuse and sexual and gender based violence. These practices have increased significantly in severity and frequency since 7 October 2023, following orders and statements of the Minister for National Security Ben Gvir who is in charge of prisons. The mis treatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli Authorities is a result of an intentional policy that utilises sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender based violence to humiliate and degrade Palestinians in detention. This was observed across several facilities, temporary holding locations, during interrogation and while in transit.
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The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender based violence is increasingly used as A method of War by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people. The Commission documented A pattern of sexual violence, including cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and other inhumane acts that amount to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
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Specific forms of sexual and gender based violence such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault, de facto form part of the ISF standard operating procedures towards Palestinians. The Commission concludes that these and other forms of sexualized torture, including rape and violence targeting the genitals, are committed with either explicit orders or an implicit encouragement by the Top Civilian and Military Leadership. The Commission found that all its documented incidents of sexual and gender based violence committed by members of the ISF were met with impunity. Under these circumstances, the Civilian and Military Leaders are as responsible for these Crimes, as are the direct perpetrators.
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The Commission s findings demonstrate A clear pattern of members of the ISF and settlers committing sexual and gender based Crimes aimed at instilling fear with the underlying intention to perpetuate Palestinian subordination and remove Palestinians from their land. The Commission therefore concludes that sexual and gender based violence was intended not only to humiliate, punish and intimidate the individual Palestinians but the civilian population as A whole, with the objective to subordinate, destroy and expel the Palestinian community.
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Sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender based violence constitute A major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians and, in the wider context, the unlawful occupation and the oppression of Palestinians as A group. Sexual and gender based violence is used as A tool to further accentuate the subordination of the occupied people, maintain the Israeli system of oppression and deny Palestinians the Right to Self Determination. The Commission affirms that these Crimes must be addressed by tackling their root causes through ending the Unlawful Occupation as rapidly as possible, dismantling settlements and evacuating the settlers immediately, ensuring the Right to Return, ensuring Restitution of Property and Land, Paying Reparations to Palestinians whose Property cannot be restored, as well as dismantling the historically oppressive structures and institutionalized system of discrimination against Palestinians, as indicated by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of July 2024.
MY COMMENT
The US Government donates 69% of Israel s imported Weapons, and Germany s Government donates 30%. Around half of Israel s Military purchases by dollar volume are domestic, and Israel has more than 150 Defense Firms, including Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. In both instances, foreign and domestic, all of the contractors, such as Lockheed Martin and other armaments firms, and Palantir and other high tech US based corporations, profit enormously from these taxpayer funded donations and Israel Government domestic purchases, and those corporations’ investors are the actual real beneficiaries of these wars. This is Imperialistic Capitalist. Supremacist, Fascism, like Hitler s was. at work. The ‘News’ Media in such countries are likewise controlled by Billionaires, so, it s easy for the beneficiaries from Wars to determine and control which people win ‘Democratic’ Elections there, so as to initiate and carry out such aggressions, these highly profitable Foreign Invasions.
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Lebanon s Tracy Chamoun reports
00:00 I wanted to share with you the hypocrisy of the Western Media. Look at Reuters. They re calling this plumes of thick smoke [that] were poured from Israeli Planes onto Southern Lebanon. This is White Phosphorus, one of the most dangerous Chemical Agents used in Warfare. It basically burns you from the inside out if you breathe it in, and if it lands on the ground, it creates fire and burns everything that it comes into contact with. [The February 2014 US Coup imposed new Government of Ukraine, the Obama | Biden Regime did that, used White Phosphorous fire bombing against the rebellious Donbass Region in 2015 trying to conquer them. Israel is T the ONLY Country that fire bombs civilians.]
00:24 While we re on the subject of White Phosphorus, the Lebanese Ministry of Agri Culture has just released some very important numbers about what happening to the Land and the Crops and the Agri Culture in the South.
00:35 The Israelis have also, in addition to white Phosphorus, sprayed Glyphosate, which is A Highly Toxic Herbicide that contains the Chemical Round Up, which is banned in several [70] Countries [but not the US].
00:46 They ve sprayed it on Crops in South Lebanon. And also the infra structure, the irrigation, all these essential components for Agri Culture have been damaged by the Israeli aggression.
01:02 The Crops themselves, Citrus, Banana, and also very precious Olive Trees, sometimes Thousands of Years Old, destroyed, burned to the ground.
01:11 So it s really tragic what s going on. In addition to, it seems, according to the report, that they have killed about 1.8 Million Livestock.
01:22 That s Chickens and Sheep and Goats and Cows that belong to these Farmers.
01:29 About 70% of the Farmers in the South have been severely hurt by the aggression.
01:35 Also added to this, which is very sad, they have destroyed 29.000 Bee Hives.
01:42 And from another source, I know that two of the most important Bee Keepers in Lebanon were Assassinated, targeted and Assassinated.
01:52 So what is happening is very tragic. It s really A form of Ecocide.
01:55 Ecocide. And therefore, this is not, you know, to be defined or to be called War.
02:01 This is more like in the realm of A War Crime.
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The Duran, 12 May 2026
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to US and allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world s wealth by control of not only their ‘News’ media but the social ‘Sciences’, duping the public. All of my recent articles can be seen Here.
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/israel-routinely-rapes-palestinians
https://theduran.com/israel-routinely-rapes-palestinians-and-is-now-destroying-lebanon
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