Testimonies of Sexual Violence Against Palestinian Women in Israeli Detention

She was taken to Sde Teiman, and she was nude searched over and over again and

filmed, and then she was raped twice by Israeli male

soldiers, two of them at a time, while videotaping

her. We have also one testimony of a woman who

was also taken.

She was also, she says she was also raped by an inspection device by

a female

soldier

m- more than once. Um, they inserted the inspection

device in her rectum. We have also one testimony of a woman

saying that she was strip-searched, and they would beat her on her behind,

and they

would humiliate her in front of each other.

Most of the women also who were taken from Gaza, West Bank,

and Jerusalem said they

were beaten on their genitals, which is, which has made us, you know, uh, to

conclude that there must have been a directive that's been given to the Israeli

army to treat women in such manner because in Jerusalem you're treated by a

completely different law enforcement than in Gaza or in the West Bank.

But all these women said they were beaten on their genitals.

And I could just add on, uh, about the women who were forcibly

disappeared in Gaza. Like I said before, it was usually as they were fleeing south

through the safety corridor. They were abducted at the checkpoint.

Um, many were taken to the Sde Teiman

detention center

and the Negev detention center and all together in one large hall,

forced to strip completely naked and just sit in this hall,

the women with the,

amongst each other and the men amongst each other.

And it's also been reported and known that, um, Israeli civilians

are invited to

come to this detention center and mock the Palestinian prisoners

while they're

naked, photograph them, um, and, and watch them as if it's a,

a zoo. Uh, so that's something that we've seen.

Also, when it comes to checkpoints, like I said, it's, it's where the sexual

violence happens, and it goes unreported.

So we have a testimony of a,

a teenage girl who was made to undress a man

in fr-- because he refused to undress.

They made him, they made her undress him, even though she's not related to him.

She doesn't know who that man is.

And while being searched and touched and molested on their breast

and, and ge- on their, on their genitals as well