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A few weeks ago, we exposed the glaring falsehoods in a deeply flawed report issued by the United Nations’ so-called “independent” inquiry in Israel, which outrageously accused Israeli forces of committing sexual violence against Palestinians in Gaza. These allegations are not only baseless – they are a deliberate distortion of both facts and international law. In response, we have submitted a detailed rebuttal to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), the very body that established the International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (COI or Commission), laying bare the Commission’s unethical manipulation of testimony, misuse of legal terminology, and complete lack of credible evidence.
As a recap, earlier this year, the United Nations’ COI released a report titled: “More than a human can bear: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” The title evokes disturbing images of rape, sexual slavery, forced sterilizations, and other war crimes being committed. However, the Commission provided no evidence of this whatsoever because none exists.
In our new legal submission to the U.N. HRC, we explained:
Crimes of a sexual nature include rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, trafficking for sexual exploitation, mutilation of sexual organs, . . . or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity. ....
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