AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Israel has denied the accusations and condemned the report, which listed dozens of countries and nonstate groups as “credibly suspected” of patterns of rape and sexual violence.The northern Gaza Strip in 2025.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesMay 29, 2026, 3:46 p.m. ETThe United Nations on Friday added Israeli and Russian security forces for the first time to an annual report documenting sexual violence in conflicts, including allegations of rape and sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees and Ukrainian prisoners of war.The report lists dozens of countries and nonstate groups “credibly suspected” of patterns of rape and sexual violence. The list includes Hamas, which led the October 2023 attack against Israel that started the war in Gaza; the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary troops accused of atrocities in Sudan; and rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting has displaced thousands.The list was released a day after Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called his country’s inclusion on it “disconnected from the facts and reality.” The ambassador, Danny Danon, said on Thursday that Israel would cut ties with the U.N. secretary general over the report.The Russian mission to the United Nations did not immediately comment. Russian officials have repeatedly denied accusations of human rights abuses and dismissed evidence collected by international investigators since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.The U.N. investigators documented nearly 10,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence around the world in 2025, more than double the number they verified the year before.That figure “represents the very tip of the iceberg,” a U.N. special representative, Pramila Patten, told reporters on Friday. She attributed the increase to the large number of global conflicts “and the fact that perpetrators are feeling emboldened by a context of impunity where this crime is almost cost free.”Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT