Report Finds Israel Raped Gaza Detainees, Filmed Assaults in Israeli Prisons

A new report titled 'Another Genocide Behind the Walls' documents widespread practices of sexual violence, including rape, directed against detainees from the Gaza Strip in Israeli prisons, describing the abuse as a tool of destruction intended to break the individual and collective will.

“This new report, titled 'Another Genocide Behind the Walls,' documents widespread practices of sexual violence, including rape, directed against detainees from the Gaza Strip, describing them as a tool of destruction intended to break the individual and collective will and to inflict grave physical and psychological harm”

France Palestine Solidarité

The report cites direct sexual assaults, assaults with objects, and acts of torture targeting the genital area, including organized practices such as filming and the presence of multiple security personnel during the assaults.

France Palestine Solidarité

Euro-Med Monitor researcher Khaled Ahmad said it was 'practically impossible' to access cases of sexual violence and to collect testimonies, adding that it was extremely difficult for someone to come forward in a conservative society.

In one testimony documented by Euro-Med Monitor, Wajdi, 43, recounted that during interrogation soldiers tied him naked to a metal bed, filmed the assaults, and that later 'they undid the restraints and brought in a dog, which also raped me.'

An article in جريدة عمان frames the issue as a call to unite in condemning rape while describing Palestinians’ accounts of Israeli sexual violence against men, women, and even children carried out by soldiers and settlers and investigators in the Shin Bet internal security service.

Independent journalist Sami al-Saei, 46, described being led to his prison after being arrested in 2024, saying, 'They all beat me, one of them stomped on my head and neck,' and he said a guard told him 'Do not take pictures' as someone pulled out a camera.

The Intercept

Kristof’s report, as described by الجزيرة نت, says he conducted interviews with 14 Palestinians who confirmed they had experienced sexual assaults by members of the Israeli forces or settlers, and it quotes the detainee describing the experience as 'psychologically devastating and unbearable.'

The same الجزيرة نت account says Kristof argues Israeli authorities created a climate of 'dehumanization and impunity' that allows such abuses to occur without accountability, while also noting that Palestinian detainees described repeated strip searches and threats of rape.

A report described by جريدة الغد says the United Nations Secretary‑General Antonio Guterres included Israeli occupying forces in a list of parties for which there is credible information about suspected involvement in patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence related to armed conflict.

“American author Nicholas Kristof examines the broad practices of violence and sexual assault suffered by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli prison guards, soldiers, investigators, and settlers, and calls on all parties involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to agree on the principle of 'condemning rape”

Al-Jazeera Net

That same report says the UN verified cases of conflict‑related sexual violence affecting 14 men, 7 women, 9 boys, and one girl from Gaza and the West Bank, and it adds that the cases verified by the United Nations should be understood as indicators of a pattern extending over long periods.

It also says the UN verified that reporting these violations has faced difficulties, including direct threats attributed to the security agencies of the Israeli authorities aimed at forcing detainees not to report the abuses they suffered.

The Intercept describes a Palestinian Feminist Collective report, 'A Predatory State: Israeli Systemic Sexualized and Gendered Violence Against Palestinians,' and says the United Nations added Israel in May to a blacklist of countries found to be committing sexual violence in war zones, citing 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated in the last two years by Israeli forces against Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.