🔗 UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls

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  • Deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing.
  • Arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October.
  • Multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers.
  • At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped
  • Others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence
  • Children being separated from their parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown