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Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 819 words · By Emir Nader
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Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.

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What happened

Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.

Why it matters

A report by the office of Secretary General António Guterres said the UN had last year verified 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.

Common ground

It said 13 of the cases had occurred in 2025, and 18 in the two years prior.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The violations included rape, gang rape, forced nudity, and violence to genitals committed by officers from the Israeli military, police and prison service.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'verified' and does not contain the actual report details regarding the types of violations (rape, gang rape, etc.).
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2018 · VERIFIED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of verify 2. to prove that something exists or is true, or to…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/verified
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web search NEUTRAL — BeenVerified's mission is to give people easy and affordable access to public record information, but BeenVerified does not provide private investigator services or consumer reports, and is not a cons…
https://www.beenverified.com/login
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Synonyms for VERIFIED: confirmed, demonstrated, valid, validated, proven, established, actual, substantiated; Antonyms of VERIFIED: possible, potential, assumed, theoretical, alleged, hyp…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verified
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Claim 2: “Last year, Hamas was added to the previous "Conflict-related Sexual Violence" report.”
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Web search results confirm that Hamas was included in the blacklist/reports following the October 7 attacks and that a UN mission in March 2024 found reasonable grounds for conflict-related sexual violence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violence against women or mistreated female hostages. However, a UN mission concluded in March 2024 that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that co…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o
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web search NEUTRAL — The ongoing denial of Hamas’ weaponization of sexual violence on Oct. 7, 2023, and against the hostages illegally held in Gaza, including at the UN, sends a dangerous message to Hamas and other terror…
https://jewishphilly.org/letter-to-the-united-nations-for-th…
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web search NEUTRAL — Research on conflict-related sexual violence consistently identifies the public nature of violence, and its documentation and distribution, as a deliberate mechanism for maximising collective psycholo…
https://forensictimes.com/the-perfect-crime-how-hamas-used-s…
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Claim 3: “A report by the office of Secretary General António Guterres said the UN had last year verified 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.”
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Multiple web search results from May 2026 explicitly state that the UN verified 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The gen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chine…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrator of the United Nations who oversees the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the Unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_Unite…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A United Nations Secretary-General selection is currently being held to choose the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. The incumbent Secretary-General is António Guterres of Portugal, whose …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_Nations_Secretary-…
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Claim 4: “The UN Committee against Torture said in November that it was deeply concerned about reports indicating "a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill treatment" of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.”
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Claim 5: “five Israeli guards were caught on leaked CCTV footage appearing to sexually abuse a detainee from Gaza at the Sde Teiman detention facility.”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm that surveillance footage aired by Israel's Channel 12 showed Israeli soldiers appearing to sexually assault a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman facility.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 18, 2026 ... Israeli soldiers who admitted to raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention camp in July 2024 were met with applause as they ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWB55cxEtB9/
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web search NEUTRAL — In late July 2024, a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman was hospitalised with a ruptured bowel and a severe injury to his anus. He had also suffered from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sde_Teiman_gang_rape
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 8, 2024 ... Surveillance footage newly aired by Israel's Channel 12 showed what appeared to be Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmjGdzyj5BA
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Claim 6: “The UN said 12 former hostages released from Gaza had made allegations of sexual violence against Hamas captors”
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Web search results from May 2026 and November 2025 confirm that former hostages released from Gaza have publicly alleged sexual abuse by Hamas captors.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 24, 2025 ... A second former Israeli hostage has reported alleged sexual abuse in Hamas detention. This comes as numerous Palestinians have also spoken ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWQSZR78GY
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web search NEUTRAL — During the October 7 attacks, Israeli women, girls and men were reportedly subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault, by Hamas or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 14, 2026 ... Guy Gilboa-Dalal is among several former hostages, mostly women, speaking publicly about alleged sexual assaults at the hands of the ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/israel/several-former-hamas-ho…
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Claim 7: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a joint statement that they were launching a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper [New York Times]”
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Claim 8: “Out of 52 cases studied, it said only one case resulted in a prison conviction.”
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Claim 9: “Last year, the research organisation Action on Armed Violence said nearly nine in 10 Israeli investigations into crimes committed by soldiers since the beginning of the Gaza war had been closed without finding fault or without resolution.”
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Claim 10: “Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, accused Guterres on Thursday of spreading antisemitic lies.”
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Multiple web search results from May 28, 2026, confirm that Ambassador Danny Danon accused Secretary-General António Guterres of a 'moral disgrace' and equated the move to spreading lies/lack of credibility.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Danny Danon (Hebrew: דני דנון; born 8 May 1971) is an Israeli politician and diplomat serving as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations since 2024, and previously from 2015 to 2020. A member of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Danon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gilad Menashe Erdan (Hebrew: גלעד מנשה ארדן‎ [ɡilˈ(ʔ)ad (ʔ)eʁˈdan]; born 30 September 1970) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Erdan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations is the de facto Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, with the rank and status of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. The per…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Representative_of_Is…
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Claim 11: “The war began in February 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion.”
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Claim 12: “The report said the cases the UN had verified were carried out against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about the UN and Gaza war, but does not contain the specific demographic breakdown (14 men, 7 women, 9 boys, 1 girl) of the victims.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of February 2026, the State of Israel is recognized as a sovereign state by 163 of the other 192 member states of the United Nations, or approximately 85% of all UN members. The State of Israel was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_I…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Issues relating to the State of Israel and aspects of the Arab–Israeli conflict, and more recently the Iran–Israel conflict, occupy repeated annual debate times, resolutions and resources at the Unite…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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Claim 13: “It said 13 of the cases had occurred in 2025, and 18 in the two years prior.”
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While web search results confirm the general existence of the blacklist and the increase in cases in 2025, the specific breakdown of 13 cases in 2025 and 18 in the prior two years is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries in April, July, and October that year. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran–Israel_conflict
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Claim 14: “Israel's top military lawyer dropped charges against the guards in March of this year.”
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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding the military lawyer dropping charges in March.
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Claim 15: “In Russia and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, the report said it had identified 310 instances of conflict-related sexual violence, including rape and genital mutilation, affecting 280 men, 26 women and four girls.”
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Claim 16: “Russian armed and security forces were blacklisted for the first time... for sexual violence against prisoners of war and civilian detainees during the war in Ukraine.”
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Claim 17: “Last December, two Palestinian men told the BBC they had experienced sexual abuse as part of torture they were subjected to as prisoners in Israeli detention sites.”
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Claim 18: “Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.”
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Multiple independent cross-references and web search results from May 2026 confirm that Israel was added to the UN blacklist of countries committing sexual violence in warzones for the first time.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/iceland-rattled-by-trump-we…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/israel-put-on-un-sexual-vio…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/israel-put-on-un-sexual-vio…
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