Together with others colleagues, I have expressed our alarm regarding accounts of rape by the Israeli occupation forces in February this year.
It is abhorrent that such reports of sexual violence continue unabated - not to mention that this is but one of multiple forms of violence that Palestinian women are subjected to on the basis of being Palestinian and being women.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide! It must stop!
‘Women in Gaza are being raped and this is not being investigated or reported’ Canadian doctors volunteering in Gaza have reported.