Policy
The crimes of rape committed by the occupation army against our women are beginning to be revealed:
By Mr Muhannad Yousef Darwish from Gaza
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights publishes:
A woman who was raped says:
“I can’t describe what I felt. I wished for death every moment. After I was raped, I was left alone, handcuffed to the bed, naked, for hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing.”
From the testimony of N.A., a 40-year-old Palestinian mother, who was arrested at an Israeli military checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip and raped four times by occupation soldiers before being released.
“At dawn, I heard the soldiers shouting that it was forbidden to pray in the morning. I think it was the fourth day of my detention in Gaza.” I was taken by soldiers to an unknown location because I was blindfolded. They ordered me to undress, which I did. They then placed me on an iron table, forcing my chest and head against it. My hands were tied to the bedpost, and my feet were forcibly pulled apart. I felt a penis being inserted into my anus and felt a man’s body raping me. I started screaming, and they began hitting me on my back and head. I was still blindfolded, and I felt the man ejaculate inside my anus. I screamed and was beaten the whole time. I could hear a camera; I think they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. Afterward, I was left in the same position for an hour, with my hands cuffed to the bedposts, my face on the bed, and my feet on the floor. I was completely naked.
Another hour later, I was raped again in the same position. A penis was inserted into my vagina, and I was beaten while screaming. There were several soldiers present, and I could hear their laughter and the sound of a camera recording. The rape was very brief, and there was no ejaculation. During the rape, I was beaten on the head and back.
I can’t describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After the rape, I was left alone in the same room, handcuffed to the bed, naked for hours. I could hear soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Then, I was raped again vaginally, and I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After about an hour, I don’t know the exact time, a masked soldier entered, removed the blindfold, and lifted the hood from his face. He was fair-skinned and tall. He asked me if I spoke English. I said no. He said he was Russian and asked me to touch his penis, but I refused. He then punched me in the face after raping me.
So, on that day, I was raped twice and left naked in the room for three days. On the first day I was raped twice, on the second day I was raped twice, and on the third day I was left without clothes and they were looking at me through the door and they photographed me. One of the soldiers told me we would post your pictures on social media. While I was inside the room I got my period and then they asked me to put on clothes and I was moved to another room.”
