From left to right: Siraj Ismail Fayeq Abdel Aal, 16, Mahmoud Jihad Hasan Abu Warda, 14, Saadi Mohammad Saadi Hasanain, 16, Jamal Nihad Jamil Ayyad, 13, Haitham Mohammad Jamil Al-Masri, 17, and Saifan-Allah Fahd Awni Ayash, 16. Photos each courtesy of the child’s family.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff collected new testimonies from a number of Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip who were recently released from Israeli prisons and detention camps. These accounts reveal an organized and systematic practice of sexual torture, including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, sexual assault using objects and dogs, in addition to deliberate psychological humiliation aimed at crushing human dignity and erasing individual identity entirely. PCHR affirms that the testimonies do not reflect isolated incidents but constitute a systematic policy practiced in the context of the ongoing crime of genocide against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including thousands of detainees held in prisons and military camps closed to international monitoring bodies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A/80/492: “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime” – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. – Advance unedited version
IN partnership with Scotland for Palestine, we publish quotes from key Israeli figures exposing the genocidal sentiment which has fuelled two years of atrocities.
GENEVA – The UN Human Rights Office today issued an update to its database of businesses involved in certain activities in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, listing a total of 158 business enterprises from 11 countries.
GENEVA — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across the occupied Palestinian territory.
GENEVA (16 September 2025) – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today. The Commission urges Israel and all States to fulfil their legal obligations under international law to end the genocide and punish those responsible for it.
Ramallah, September 2, 2025—A record number of Palestinian children are held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army is destroying about 300 residential units daily in Gaza City and Jabalia, using around 15 robots carrying nearly 100 tonnes of explosives.
US Arms Transfers to Israel Are Internationally Wrongful Acts
