UN experts accuse Israeli forces of sexual and gender-based violence in Gaza

Our report finds that Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,

Chris Sidoti, a member of the commission, told reporters in Geneva

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,

Sidoti said

This is physical abuse, but it's also psychological abuse. It's designed to humiliate,

said Chris Sidoti, one of three members of a commission of inquiry into abuses committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories

Elise Stefanikrepresentative

The so-called ‘Human Rights Council’ has failed to condemn the barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israel including the brutal slaughter, torture, kidnapping of thousands of innocent civilians, and Hamas’ horrific use of rape and sexual violence against Israeli women and girls, yet disgracefully attacks Israel with unfounded smears,

Stefanik said in a statement

This report is not even worth the paper it was printed on. Anyone who supported this false publication is complicit in whitewashing Hamas' war crimes and trampling on the truth,

Danon said in a statement

For decades, the head of the Inquiry, Navi Pillay, has been the world’s leading champion of the 2001 UN ‘Durban Declaration’ slander that a Jewish state is a racist state. Inquiry members have referred to the ‘Jewish lobby’ controlling social media and then complained that antisemitism is ‘always raised as a diversion,

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices told Fox News Digital

Micheál Martintaoiseach

Nobody is expelling any Palestinians from Gaza,

the US president said after a White House meeting with the Irish prime minister, Micheál Martin

Benjamin Netanyahuprime Minister

Instead of focusing on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes that were perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre carried out against the Jewish People since the Holocaust, the UN has again chosen to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including baseless accusations of sexual violence,

Netanyahu said in a statement

Israel’s decision to suspend all aid and goods from entering Gaza is already depriving families of food and medicine. Over the last week the costs of essential goods in the market, including produce, flour, and oil, has more than doubled,

Kate Phillips-Barrasso of the humanitarian aid group Mercy Corps said in a statement Thursday

Gaza cannot afford a return to war,

she said

There is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has employed sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians to terrorize them and perpetuate a system of oppression,

she added

Israel … carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities,

according to a report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

It is one of the worst cases of blood libel the world has ever seen (and the world has seen many),

said Israel's Foreign Minister Oren Marmorstein in a post on social media

The U.N. is once again choosing to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including unfounded accusations of sexual violence,

the statement said

We have not made any finding of genocide. We have identified a number of acts that constitute the categories of genocidal act under the law. We have not yet examined the question of genocidal purpose,

he told a press conference

We'll be soon in a position to deal comprehensively with the question of genocide,

he added, potentially later this year

They clearly do not read our documents. They clearly have an agenda that they pursue, totally devoid of any relationship to fact. It's chronic lying,

he said

If they waited for action by the Security Council they'd be waiting until hell froze over,

he said

The evidence collected by the commission reveals a deplorable increase in sexual and gender-based violence,

said its chair Navi Pillay

Male detainees were subjected to attacks targeting their sexual and reproductive organs, including violence to their genitals...,

it added