RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates voiced its support for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres amid Israeli efforts to exert pressure on a UN report that places Israel and its occupation authorities on the “list of shame” for parties accused of committing conflict-related sexual violence.
The ministry said that Israel, through its official and unofficial institutions, has committed acts of torture, sexual violence and rape against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly against Palestinian detainees held in detention centers, detention camps and prisons, as well as against international solidarity activists.
It stressed that Israel has systematically employed sexual violence as a weapon of war, constituting both a war crime and a crime against humanity, and has likewise used starvation as a weapon of war throughout its genocidal campaign.
Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stressed that Israel has systematically employed sexual violence as a weapon of war, constituting both a war crime and a crime against humanity.
The ministry added that these practices are part of a systematic and widespread policy pursued by Israel, the illegal occupying power, over many years to intimidate the Palestinian people and create coercive conditions aimed at their forcible displacement.
