Freed Palestinian Woman Recounts Sexual Torture In Israeli Prisons

 A Palestinian woman from Gaza who was recently freed from Israeli detention has reported being subjected to sexual violence in Israeli prisons, according to a statement by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR).

The PCHR documented her testimony, revealing what it described as an “organised and systematic practice of sexual torture including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, [and] sexual assault using objects and dogs” perpetrated by Israeli soldiers. N.A. (42) was detained in November 2024 while crossing an Israeli checkpoint in northern Gaza.

PCHR also reported that male detainees were targeted.

Another detainee, M.A., aged 18, who was taken by Israeli forces near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution centre in Palestine’s Gaza, testified that Israeli soldiers “ordered me and six other detainees to kneel, and they raped us by inserting a bottle into the anus.”