💔 4 Testimonies of Palestinians Sexually Assaulted by the IDF are the Worst I've Ever Heard in My Life

Of course, these will never make the mainstream media, but they should.

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WARNING: WHAT FOLLOWS IS GRAPHIC TESTIMONY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

I need to prepare you for what follows. On November 10th, 2025, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) released a dossier of sworn testimonies from recently released Palestinian detainees. What they describe is systematic sexual torture in Israeli detention — including rape, forced stripping and filming, sexual assault with objects and dogs, and degradation designed to crush human dignity. These are not isolated incidents; PCHR’s lawyers say this is a policy, part of a larger genocidal campaign.

What PCHR documented — and why it matters

PCHR’s team of lawyers and field researchers took new statements from women and men released from Israeli prisons and military camps over the past two years. They describe arrests with no legal basis beyond residency in Gaza; collective punishment; and detention sites closed to international monitors, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.

“An organized and systematic practice of sexual torture… including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, sexual assault using objects and dogs… These testimonies do not reflect isolated incidents.” — PCHR statement, November 10th, 2025

One woman, N.A. (42), a mother from northern Gaza arrested at a checkpoint in November 2024, recounts multiple rapes by soldiers while blindfolded, stripped, beaten, electrocuted, and filmed.

“At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked.

Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back.

I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me.

That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” — N.A., testimony to PCHR

A man, A.A. (35), detained 19 months after arrest at Al‑Shifa Hospital (March 2024), describes being stripped, beaten, and raped by a trained dog inside Sde Teiman military camp, then stitched without anesthesia.

“I was moved to a section I didn’t know inside Sde Teiman. During the first weeks there, amid repeated suppression operations, I was taken with a group of detainees in a degrading manner to a place far from the cameras—a passage between sections. We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me. Then one of the dogs raped me—the dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing, and inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces. The dog’s assault lasted about three minutes; the overall suppression lasted about three hours. Because of the severe beating, all of us sustained injuries across our bodies. I suffered a severe psychological breakdown and deep humiliation; I lost control because I could never have imagined experiencing such a thing. Afterward, a doctor stitched a wound in my head caused by the torture—seven stitches without anesthesia. I also suffered bruises, fractures in my limbs, and a rib fracture.” — A.A., testimony to PCHR

Another survivor, T.Q. (41), detained 22 months after arrest at Kamal Adwan Hospital (December 2023), recounts rape with a wooden object, forced oral contact with the same object, and continuing beatings.

“One of the soldiers raped me by violently inserting a wooden stick into my anus. After about a minute he removed it and then inserted it again more forcefully while I screamed loudly. After another minute he removed it and forced me to open my mouth and put the stick in my mouth to lick it. From sheer anguish I lost consciousness for minutes, until a female officer came and forced them to stop beating me. She untied my hands, gave me a white overall to wear, and brought me a cup of water which I drank. I felt blood flowing from my anus and asked to go to the bathroom. She gave me tissues and I went to a plastic toilet there. They removed the blindfold; when I wiped my anus there was blood. After I finished and the bleeding stopped, I put the white overall back on. As soon as I came out, they blindfolded me again and tied my hands behind my back with plastic ties. I was then moved to a room where I was held with several detainees for about eight hours, during which soldiers periodically returned to beat and insult us brutally.” — T.Q., testimony to PCHR

And M.A. (18), re‑arrested near an aid distribution point in 2025, describes soldiers raping detainees with a bottle, including mass assaults of groups of six and twelve men at a time.

“The soldiers ordered me and six other detainees to kneel, and they raped us by inserting a bottle into the anus, pushing it in and pulling it out. It happened to me four times, with about ten in-and-out motions each time. I screamed, and so did the others with me. Of the four times, twice it was just me, and twice it was with others—once with six people and once with twelve people. I saw what they were doing to the others while they did it to me, and I realized it was a bottle. There was also a dog behind us, as if the dog was raping us. They violated our dignity and destroyed our spirits and our hope for life. I had wanted to continue my education; now I am lost after what happened to me.” — M.A., testimony to PCHR

The bigger picture — a documented pattern

PCHR stresses these accounts align with a May 2025 report based on 100 detainee testimonies documenting torture, degrading treatment, and inhumane conditions in prisons and camps. PCHR concludes the treatment not only meets the elements of torture under international law, but also amounts to genocidal acts: causing serious bodily and mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group in whole or in part.

International law in plain words

Under the Geneva Conventions and customary international law, rape and sexual violence are grave breaches and war crimes. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court treats rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, and other forms of sexual violence as war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Convention against Torture absolutely prohibits torture in any circumstances. The Genocide Convention includes causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting conditions of life intended to destroy a group. If verified, these testimonies fit squarely within chargeable crimes under each of these frameworks.

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One ledger (our only list): what must happen now

• Immediate access for the ICRC and independent investigators to all detention facilities, including Sde Teiman, with survivor‑centered protocols and full evidence preservation.

• Protect survivors now: medical care, trauma‑informed services, confidentiality, and safety guarantees.

• Criminal files: open universal‑jurisdiction cases; integrate charges of rape and sexual torture into ICC filings; issue arrest warrants for responsible units and commanders.

• Stop the cover: publish rosters of units and personnel stationed at identified sites; preserve surveillance and device logs; ban destruction of records.

• Block the death‑penalty law: the Knesset move to enable executions of Palestinian prisoners under coerced confessions would enable mass executions; states must condemn and sanction.

Objection — and the answer

“These are isolated claims.” PCHR reports a systematic policy, with corroborating testimonies and prior documentation. Isolation is the excuse of the guilty.

“The war is over.” Sexual torture is not a past tense — survivors are alive right now and detention sites remain closed to monitors.

“It’s too graphic to publish.” That’s the point. Rape as a weapon is meant to be unspeakable so it remains unaccountable. Speak it — and act.

A final word to survivors

I believe you. I’m writing this so the world cannot look away. If you’ve been harmed and choose to come forward, you deserve care, protection, and anonymity — and a world that fights for your justice.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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