Palestinians raped by guards and soldiers in Israeli prisons

[Opinion. If soldiers have impunity to murder, they also have impunity to rape. Female soldiers have always been sexually harassed and assaulted in every army worldwide and the IDF is no different. Note that TRT World is an official news outlet for the Turkish govt. There is no author attribution.]

Israel’s rape entitlement stems from its foundation

Rape and female mutilation has been one of the cornerstones of Israel’s foundation, with the moral decay seeping into its army first and then society.

TRT World: September 5, 2024

SOURCE: https://www.trtworld.com/article/18198981 

Terrorists-turned-founders of the Israeli army—Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Sadeh, and Yigal Allon — used rape as a tool against Palestinians from the early days of Israel's creation on Palestinian land.

Israel’s rape problem is rooted in the country’s very foundation. Ever since 1947, raping Palestinian men and women has been a constant feature of the state’s existence.

In one of his groundbreaking interviews, he says that between April and May 1948, a Zionist terror group named Haganah, which operated under the orders of Ben Gurion, engaged in mass killings and rapes in several Palestinian neighbourhoods. The historical evidence Morris collected over the years suggested most rape victims were murdered.

In a chilling conclusion, he writes: “Various officers who took part in the operation understood that the expulsion order they received permitted them to do these deeds in order to encourage the population to take to the roads. The fact is that no one was punished for these acts of murder. Ben-Gurion silenced the matter.”

With terror groups like Haganah, Irgun, the Stern Gang metamorphosing into a regular Israeli army in 1948, the country’s military establishment inherited rape and female mutilation as tools in their arsenal. And the future generations of the Israeli army internalised such sadistic behaviours as legal or societal pushbacks have been meagre.

The second phase of this degeneration involves sex offences taking place within the military establishment itself, with Israeli female soldiers being victims.

In 2001, former Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai was convicted of sexually assaulting two women -- one had served as a soldier under Mordechai in 1992, when he led Israel's northern command. Another woman reported that in 1996, while serving as defense minister, Mordechai attacked her when she visited his home after he offered assistance in finding her a job.

In 2010, former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was jailed for raping a female subordinate when he was a cabinet minister in the 1990s. The court also held him guilty of sexually assaulting two woman while serving as the country's president.

In October 2019, senior officer Shai Elbaz resigned as the head of operations for the Israeli navy after several female officers, who were his subordinates, testified to Israel’s Channel 12 that a decade earlier Elbaz had abused his authority to coerce them into illicit sexual relationships.

In 2016, another Israeli military officer Ofek Buchris, who was projected as a role model and future head of the Israeli army, faced indictment for sodomising and sexually assaulting two female subordinates between 2010 and 2012.

[Which brings us to Israeli prison for Palestinians, some held for more than a decade without charge or trial. Torture and rape as torture is commonplace. Usually by sadistic penetration with objects on male prisoners. Al-Jazeera: “Shackled, bleeding, raped: Palestinians describe abuse in Israel’s prisons” https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/9/shackled-bleeding-raped-palestinians-describe-abuse-in-israels-prisons]