1 week ago - According to the report, there is evidence that during the Gaza war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. According to these reports, Palestinian women and girls were also subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment by the IDF, such as they were denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and were severely beaten, raped, assaulted, threatened with rape and sexual violence, and subjected to multiple forms of sexual assaults.

November 28, 2022 - A report by the State Comptroller found that less than half of the Israeli female soldiers who experienced sexual harassment filed a complaint, and out of those who did report, 44% said it was not handled properly and 26% reported that their ...

September 10, 2017 - The results of the internal survey revealed that just under 16 percent of women currently serving in the IDF said they had been harassed at least once during their mandatory two-year service.

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February 28, 2026 - Even when social attitudes were changing in the 1980s, the IDF was still inclined towards tolerance and a senior army official warned of not blowing the "topic out of all proportion." In 1993, it was reported that only 10 percent of around 1,000 ...

June 1, 2023 - Alongside the categories of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian women, and rape, it is the category of war that brings together all the other elements because it is the main comparative terrain through which the rare and limited scope of Israeli state sexual violence is constituted. Rarity always needs a point of reference. In the context examined here, the claim that the rape of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers is a rare and limited phenomenon is aided by situating the case of Palestinian women within cases of rape in war. Nitsán (2007) compares the war in Vietnam, as well as the wars in Bosnia and in Darfur, with the Israeli occupation of Palestine and concludes that the IDF rapes female civilians less often than other armies.

March 13, 2025 - Gaza and the disproportionate violence against women and children resulting from · Israel’s method of war, including the targeting of residential buildings and the · indiscriminate use of heavy explosives in densely populated areas. It describes the · destruction of Palestinians through reproductive violence and harms resulting from · the Israeli Security Forces’ deliberate attacks on sexual and reproductive health care

June 11, 2025 - The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel submits the present conference room paper to the Human Rights Council on the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence by the Israeli Security Forces since 7 October 2023. In the paper, the Commission examines Israel’s widespread destruction of Gaza and the disproportionate violence against women and children resulting from Israel’s method of war, including the targeting of residential buildings and the indiscriminate use of heavy explosives in densely populated areas.

Report on the Sexual Torture and · Inhumane Treatment of Palestinian Female

3 days ago - Noam Mark, emergency security team ... of women from the festival in a house, naked, with "clear signs of severe sexual violence". ARCCI says he provided police supporting video. New York Times reports of at least 24 bodies with signs of sexual abuse in Be'eri and Kfar Aza · Many of the bodies discovered in the various scenes were brought to the IDF Military Rabbinate ...

February 25, 2025 - According to Moor’s research, conducted on Israeli respondents, about 21% of girls and women in Israel have been raped.(3) One in every five minors experiences sexual abuse. In a large-scale Israeli study carried out in 2013 as part of the ...

1 week ago - 1Department of Defense, Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, (2020). See More Facts & Statistics · 6.2% of active duty women and 0.75 of active duty men

March 13, 2025 - In a statement, Israel's mission to the UN in Geneva said the report was "a shameless attempt to incriminate the [Israel Defense Forces] and manufacture the illusion of 'systemic' use of [sexual and gender-based violence]". It criticised what it called the commission's decision to use "information from second-hand single uncorroborated sources", which it said was inconsistent with established UN standards and methodologies. The statement also stressed that the IDF had "concrete directives, procedures, orders, and policies, which unequivocally prohibit such misconduct", as well as mechanisms to investigate any incidents of alleged sexual violence.

(6) American Indian women are the only ethnic group more likely to be assaulted by a male outside their own ethnicity. (7) It is estimated that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 boys by age 18 will have been the victim of some form of sexualized violence.

January 13, 2026 - One in five women in the United States experienced completed or attempted rape during their lifetime. SOURCE Nearly a quarter (24.8%) of men in the U.S. experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime.

February 22, 2024 - There was evidence of widespread sexual violence by Hamas against Israeli women and girls during the 7 October raid in southern Israel. The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel has reported that the use of rape and other abuse by the Hamas attackers was “systematic and intentional”. Those assaults, which were also condemned by Alsalem and the other UN experts, are to be the subject of a report by the UN secretary general’s special envoy on sexual violence, Pramila Patten.

In addition, prevalence estimates ... the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). The 2015 NISVS (N=10,081) estimated that 5.4 percent of women and 5.1 percent of men experienced any past-year contact sexual violence, physical violenc...

1 month ago - This destruction extends beyond the individual to erode social and gender identity, as victims live in a state of “chronic fear” of renewed abuse even after release. This fear paralyses them, restricts their ability to work or study, and drives them into forced isolation. For men, sexual violence is used to “de-masculinise” them and instil helplessness, while for women it seeks to impose “social stigma,” leading to the breakdown of family relationships and withdrawal from society.

February 3, 2026 - Collectively, they reveal the reality of sexual violence in America today. ... has experienced attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. 1National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey (1998).

World Health Organization estimates, based on available prevalence data from 137 countries between 2000 and 2018, showed that, globally, 6% of women aged 15–49 years reported experiencing sexual violence in their lifetime from someone other than an intimate partner, with prevalence rates ...