Israel has lashed out against United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres for its inclusion as a perpetrator in this year's Conflict-Related Sexual Violence report, which was released to the public on Friday.
Israel said it would no longer work with the UN chief.
The report adds Israel to a slate of countries whose soldiers and security forces have shown a pattern of using rape against captives or vulnerable groups. The secretary general warned that he would do so last year, when he put Israel "on notice" for not providing sufficient access to UN investigators.
The UN has long documented Israeli sexual violence towards Palestinians, most particularly in its March 2025 report about the "systematic" use of such force in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and then again in July when it highlighted a pattern of "genital beatings" and "burns".
After viewing an internal copy of the report earlier this week, Israel's mission to the UN said on Thursday that it would no longer work with Guterres and that its ambassador, Danny Danon, "set him straight" during a phone call.
