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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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> Who was abusing? It's possible that in some cases it was settlers. So technically not soldiers. But soldiers protected them, incl. from any resisting abuse.

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„There” — you mean where? Generally in the West Bank or intruding into Palestinian homes to abuse their children?

I'd wager Palestinians would throw them out of their homes. Instead, parents had to stand there helpless.

If you meant generally, I think they wouldn't be there without soldiers at all, illegaly tranfering own population into occupied territories.

Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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Straight from IDF soliders: One incident did leave a scar. It happened at an army outpost in southern Gaza. "I was sitting there in the command room," Maya says. "Suddenly, the soldiers on watch noticed five Palestinians crossing the line they weren't allowed to cross, heading for northern Gaza. "Everybody went crazy. There was a big mess. The battalion commander gave an order to overwhelm them with fire, even though…

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Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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> Who was abusing? It's possible that in some cases it was settlers. So technically not soldiers. But soldiers protected them, incl. from any resisting abuse.

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Is this a joke?

Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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Just like you are not neutral. You can't just say that any article after October 7 exist just as persuasion - everything and everyone is against Israel? This automatically seems extremely suspicious to anyone with basic knowledge of how conflicts work.

Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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Straight from IDF soliders: One incident did leave a scar. It happened at an army outpost in southern Gaza. "I was sitting there in the command room," Maya says. "Suddenly, the soldiers on watch noticed five Palestinians crossing the line they weren't allowed to cross, heading for northern Gaza. "Everybody went crazy. There was a big mess. The battalion commander gave an order to overwhelm them with fire, even though…

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We don't fund Hamas with our tax dollars. Actually, Israelis were funding Hamas with their tax dollars not too long ago. I wonder why?

Also, this is what most of Gaza looks like now. Are you aware of this? https://static.972mag.com/www/uploads/2025/01/IMGL8385.jpg

Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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The christian supporters of Israel can also think a bit about the itf soldiers destroying a statue of Jesus in Lebanon if they want to understand what they are supporting. Useful idiots doesn't even start to describe it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd575n1znzo

Anything for Second Coming of Jesus

Re: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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The language in the article would be fascinating if it wasn't such a horrible thing. It's not that the Israeli soldiers are sexually assaulting Palestinians, instead they are using Sexual Assault. Later they say "Sexualised violence is used...", "men and boys were Targeted..." It's like there is a gun shooting people, or someone using a gun. But we can't connect fully understand how or who is perpetuating it. Edit: s…

I don't think the passive voice is meant to protect the perpetrators. Instead, they are presenting sexual assault as a deliberate tactic or policy, or at least a common pattern. If true, this is a much bigger story than isolated incidents of violence. But sixteen reported cases over three years seems very low. Likely there are more cases they missed. Mainly it seems like they have very little data.

More likely, they already knew what they wanted to say, data or no data: Israel/US, bad: global revolution, good. They have to keep the pressure up so they need to write papers and get articles written about those papers and then get them posted on hacker news regardless of what actually happened. It’s a constant grind, but I suppose it will all be worth it for them if they get appointed on the committee of the vanguard or something like that.
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