#Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western #Media

Women are routinely sexually abused during home invasions by the Israeli military. They’re forced to disrobe – sometimes in front of their male relatives – and adopt humiliating poses for the soldiers to film them, Khraim said. During some #WestBank home invasions, the other advocate testified, Israeli soldiers touched Palestinian women sexually and threatened them with rape, all while their male relatives were handcuffed. The soldiers “make sexual noises and gestures, threaten to rape [the woman] even, doing this in front of [her male relatives] while they're being handcuffed or blindfolded, not able to stop it, not able to protect [their] daughter, sister, whatever it may be. It's a form to not only control the woman, but also control the men as well, and break up the family and, in turn, break up society as a whole.”

“Rape was mainly done by Israeli female officers inserting objects inside genitals” of the detained, Khraim testified. The female Israeli soldiers raped both men and women, photographing and often filming the assaults.
https://zeteo.com/p/palestinian-women-raped-by-israeli
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#gaza #genocide #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #sexualabuse #sexualviolence #Palestine @palestine @israel

#Immigration ofcls also detained #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate #MahmoudKhalil – a #GreenCard holder – earlier this month in front of his pregnant wife, Noor, a US citizen. Other students detained by immigration ofcls include #BadarSuri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at #Georgetown University, after #DHS accused him of having ties to Hamas.

In recent wks, federal authorities have detained a handful of other #university #students & #researchers – including #GreenCard holders – who have expressed #Palestinian solidarity amid #Israel’s deadly war on #Gaza. Earlier this week, 30-yr-old #RumeysaOzturk, a Turkish doctoral student at #Tufts University, was detained by masked federal ofcls in dramatic footage that has caused widespread outrage.

Good news (for now)

Judge Orders #US to Stop Attempts to #Deport #Columbia Undergrad

The #Trump admin had been seeking to arrest & deport #YunseoChung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child & is a #GreenCard holder, after she participated in a pro-#Palestinian sit-in.

#immigration #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #democracy #authoritarianism #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5C6C987B-9585-4051-BA86-E26F1D77E60C

The decision to target noncitizens who participate in pro-#Palestinian #protest activity and speech, the lawsuit argues, has created a broadly chilling effect on what can be heard on college campuses.

https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/pwkvocf6z4

#BadarSuri has NO criminal record & has not been charged w/a crime, his petition says. His #detention & petition have not been previously reported.

Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the #Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a #UScitizen — & because the govt *suspects* that he & his wife oppose US #ForeignPolicy toward #Israel.

The agents identified themselves as being w/ #DHS & told #BadarSuri the govt had revoked his #visa…
Suri…was put in #deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of #immigration #law that the govt invoked to deport #MahmoudKhalil, the #ColumbiaUniversity grad student & #GreenCard holder who led pro-#Palestinian protests on campus. That provision gives the secy of #State power to deport noncitizens if he determines their continued presence in the #US would threaten #ForeignPolicy.

@palestine @israel
#UN report of sexual abuse of #Palestinian detainees “horrifying”

Sari Bashi from Human Rights Watch unpacks a UN report accusing Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocide.

Sari Bashi, a programme director at Human Rights Watch, discusses a UN report that accuses Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocidal acts against Palestinians. #Israel denies the claims.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2025/3/18/un-report-of-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees
#hrw #sexualviolence #sexualabuse #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #palestine #prisoners #prisons

A federal judge has blocked the removal of a #Palestinian activist who was detained at #ColumbiaUniversity

#MahmoudKhalil is being held at a Louisiana detention center, his attorney said.

Khalil was arrested by #Trump’s ICE agents at Columbia University over the weekend, despite having a #GreenCard sparking an outcry from #CivilRights groups. His attys subsequently filed a #HabeasCorpus petition challenging his arrest.

#law #ChristianZionism
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-green-card-columbia-university/story?id=119616144