The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published the first testimony of a woman from Gaza who was gang-raped by Israeli soldiers.
N.A. spoke to the center’s lawyer about being subjected to various forms of torture and sexual violence, including being raped four times by Israeli soldiers.
I quote:
“At dawn, I heard soldiers shouting that morning prayers were forbidden. I believe it was my fourth day of detention in Gaza. The soldiers took me to an unknown location because I was blindfolded. They ordered me to undress, which I did. They then placed me on an iron table, forcing my chest and head onto it. My hands were tied to the bedpost, and my feet were stretched apart. I felt a penis being inserted into my anus and felt a man's body raping me. I started screaming, and they began hitting me on my back and head. I was still blindfolded, and I felt the man ejaculate inside my anus. I screamed and was beaten the whole time. I could hear a camera; I think they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. Afterward, I was left in the same position for an hour, with my hands cuffed to the bedposts, my face on the bed, and my feet on the floor. I was completely naked.
Another hour later, I was raped again.” The same position where the penis was inserted into my vagina and I was being beaten while screaming. There were several soldiers present; I could hear them laughing and the sound of a camera taking pictures. The rape was very short, and there was no ejaculation. During the rape, I was being hit on the head and back with their hands.
I can't describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After the rape, I was left alone in the same room, handcuffed to the bed, naked for hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Then, I was raped again vaginally, and I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After about an hour, or maybe less—I don't know the exact time—a masked soldier entered, removed the blindfold from my eyes, and lifted the hood from his face. He was fair-skinned and tall. He asked me if I spoke English. I said no. He said he was Russian and asked me to touch his penis, but I refused. He then punched me in the face after raping me.
That is to say, I am in Today I was raped twice. I was left naked for a whole day inside the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice, on the second day I was raped twice, and on the third day I was left naked while they looked through the keyhole and photographed me. One of the soldiers told me, “We will post your pictures on social media.” While I was in the room, I got my period, and that’s when they told me to get dressed and moved me to another room.”
🚨 BREAKING: Gaza’s Ministry of Health has received 45 bodies of Palestinians from the Red Cross at Nasser Medical Complex after Israel released them.
The bodies bear clear signs of torture, field execution, and abuse with hands bound and eyes blindfolded.
Please STOP leaving Black activists behind. We always show up. We always stand tall. And too often, we’re the ones left to fend for ourselves.
Okey Nnorom deserves the same global outrage and solidarity.
✊🏿 Demand his release. #FreeOkey#GlobalSumudFlotilla
That’s a bomb about every 8 minutes, every hour, for 24 straight hours. On a starving civilian population, trapped in a strip of land the size of Philadelphia. After nearly two years of relentless attacks.
The scale of Israel’s violence and atrocities is staggering.
all three countries now recognise palestine while simultaneously arming israel and allowing the genocide against the palestinian people to continue. a pathetic gesture that means nothing without sanctions and ceasing to sell arms to israel.
Israel has just bombed Doha. Yesterday they bombed Tunis in attack on the flotilla. Last week they murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen. These are brazen acts of war. What other country gets away with all of this?
.@Hind_Gaza: "Palestinian journalists right now are crying. If I show you my colleagues that are sitting between their reporting & live shifts they're trying to hold their tears, trying to find the words to describe what is going on. Our colleagues were killed live on air"
Today is a day of national and international shame.
This famine could have been prevented, if only our government treated Palestinians as human beings whose lives were worth saving.
How can food be blocked yet arms still flow?
Please do not buy from Lola’s Cupcakes. It’s a v popular bakery with so many branches but they are Zionist owned and we do not support Zionist brands because they condone and support the murder of innocent people. Hardly an issue because you guys can just order from me instead x
Incredible how there are warrants out for this man by the ICJ for war crimes, & crimes against humanity, but British broadcasters still help him broadcast his lies and press conferences. No wonder he’s killing Palestinians every day with impunity.