ALT Barbed wire in the foreground with a blurred excavator behind it during construction of the separation wall in the occupied West Bank. © UN Photo

ALT A Palestinian man stands beside the rubble of his demolished home in the Jericho governorate, with scattered concrete blocks and twisted metal in the foreground and fields, trees, a tractor and hills behind him. © UNOCHA

ALT Recommendation 38. I reiterate my call to the Government of Israel to immediately cease all acts of sexual violence, implement time-bound commitments to address and prevent sexual violence, as outlined in Security Council resolutions 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013) and 2467 (2019), and to grant unfettered access to relevant United Nations bodies to conduct investigations into all alleged violations, including conflict-related sexual violence. 39. I continue to call for accountability with due process of law for sexual violence crimes committed during the attacks of 7 October and in their aftermath and call upon Hamas to adopt measures to address sexual violence. 40. I urge the Government of Israel to ensure that Palestinian prisoners are treated in a dignified way and to investigate and prosecute all allegations of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees.

ALT 35. In 2025, patterns of sexual violence against Palestinians detained in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory continued to be documented. The cases verified by the United Nations should be seen as indicative of incidents and patterns over multiple reporting periods rather than comprehensive, given the continued denial of access by the Government of Israel to detention settings, as well as to Gaza. Challenges to reporting sexual violence persisted, due to, inter alia, explicit threats made by Israeli armed and security forces coercing detainees not to report abuse. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), while the Comprehensive Plan resulted in the release of 1,968 Palestinians detained by the Israeli authorities, over 9,000 remained in detention, including over 4,000 detained without charges or trial or administratively detained, raising concerns of arbitrary detention. In 2025, the United Nations verified multiple

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