WorldAn annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees. Israel denies the accusations.Both countries expressed outrage at the allegations and lashed out at UN secretary-generalThe Associated Press · Posted: May 28, 2026 9:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, seen here in April, had warned both Israel and Russia that they could be on the 2025 blacklist. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)WARNING: This article contains details of sexual assault and violence.An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees. Israel denies the accusations.The 35-page report — shared by the Israeli mission to the UN late Thursday ahead of its expected release Friday — blacklists 77 government and non-government parties in a dozen countries suspected of committing or being responsible for sexual violence in conflicts around the world. It says the number of cases rose sharply in 2025 from 2024.Russian armed and security forces were also blacklisted for the first time this year for sexual violence against prisoners of war and civilians detained during the war in Ukraine.The list for 2025 includes Israel's armed and security forces as well as Hamas militants, who were previously blacklisted after their attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.Both Israel and Russia were warned in last year's report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres that they could be put on the list.WATCH | Investigating alleged sexual violence in conflict:CBC News Network’s Diana Sumanac-Johnson speaks with the Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University, Jennie Burnet, about the United Nations sending a special envoy to Gaza to investigate sexual violence.January 14, 2024|Duration 8:00Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.Outrage at UN secretary-generalThe ambassadors of both countries expressed outrage at their inclusion and lashed out at Guterres."We will write a letter to the secretary-general saying that these are unsubstantiated lies and alleged things which again portray Russia as a villain, like they do all the time," Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said. He said Russia is documenting and preparing a report on how the Ukrainians are treating Russian prisoners of war."We are done with this UN Secretary-General," Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, said in a statement on social media. "Guterres has put Israel on the same blacklist along with Hamas, ISIS and the most depraved terrorist organizations in the world." Guterres's second five-year term ends Dec. 31.Ukrainian survivors of sexual violence, torture say country will have to share burden of their traumaSexual violence was 'deliberate tactic' and integral to Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, report findsDanon said Israel had provided documents, data and detailed responses to the allegations that are raised in the report.The report said in 2025 the UN was able to document "patterns of sexual violence" against Palestinians detained in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and verified multiple incidents of conflict-related sexual violence, including as a form of torture, inflicted on 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl from Gaza and the West Bank. It said 13 cases occurred in 2025 and 18 in 2023 and 2024."Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape," the report stated.WATCH | Alleged weaponization of women and children in war:Women and children are weaponized by Russian forces, Canada's foreign affairs minister saysApril 24, 2022|Duration 7:46Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly about sexual violence allegedly being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine and the work she and her United Kingdom counterpart, Liz Truss, are doing to bring those responsible to justice.It detailed at least nine victims, mostly from Gaza, who were raped or gang raped, in some cases repeatedly, by perpetrators from the Israel Defense Forces and Israel's prison service, its special forces and police units.Israel's foreign ministry said Thursday it has "comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations."Canadian Gaza flotilla activist says he was beaten for days in Israeli detention"This decision is yet another example of the UN's long-standing, institutionalized hostility toward Israel," the foreign ministry wrote on X.The report again includes accusations of sexual violence by Hamas, but says many of the details could not be independently confirmed because the Israeli government continues to deny the U.N. the access it needs to carry out investigations.