Press Release

O Muslims: How can you enjoy life while free women are being tortured and their honor violated in the prisons of the Jews?!

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based on new testimonies collected by the Center's lawyers and researchers from a number of released detainees from the Gaza Strip from the prisons and detention centers of the Jewish entity, revealed a systematic and organized practice of sexual torture, including rape, stripping, forced photography, and sexual assault with tools and dogs. In addition to deliberate psychological humiliation aimed at crushing human dignity and completely erasing individual identity. The center confirms that what is stated in these testimonies does not represent isolated individual incidents, but rather falls within a systematic policy practiced in the context of the ongoing crime of genocide against the population of the Gaza Strip, which numbers more than two million people, including thousands of detainees held in prisons and camps closed to international monitoring, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The report documented shocking testimonies related to cases of rape committed by the occupation forces against Palestinians, including women who were arrested from various areas of the Gaza Strip during the past two years. Among the cases documented by the report was the rape of a 42-year-old woman who was arrested while passing through a checkpoint that was set up in the northern Gaza Strip in November 2024. In her testimony to the Center's staff, she spoke about being subjected to several forms of torture and sexual violence, including being raped four times by Jewish soldiers, in addition to being verbally abused repeatedly, stripped naked and photographed while naked, electrocuted, and beaten all over her body.

Shocking and very painful testimonies narrated by the released prisoners, especially what was narrated by the female prisoner whose testimony was mentioned in the report, men and women are arrested, tortured, and their honor and dignity are violated for no reason except that they are from the Gaza Strip, which is subjected to brutal genocide and collective punishment whose chapters are still continuing until now. Testimonies that reflect the brutality, criminality, meanness, and depravity of the Jewish entity and its soldiers who were promoting to the world that they are "the most moral army", and the soldiers and Ben Gvir boast about what they have done and what the prisoners are suffering in the prisons of the Jews, especially the Sedie Teman camp, where the people of Gaza are being held.

This entity has gone too far in its criminality and brutality when it saw the betrayal and silence, but rather the conspiracy of the rulers of the Muslims against the people of the blessed land and against the people of Gaza in particular. These treacherous rulers, along with the criminal and hypocritical international system, headed by America, have made strenuous efforts to release the Jewish prisoners who were being held in Gaza, and they have rushed to search for the bodies of those who died and remove them from under the rubble, without batting an eyelid or uttering a word, let alone moving to rescue the prisoners in the prisons of the Jews, and without bothering to remove the thousands of martyrs who are still under the rubble.

This criminal entity has gone too far and dared to commit its crimes and violate the honor of free women, when it saw that the nation and its armies have remained silent about what it is committing against their brothers and sisters in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, so they abandoned them and left them as easy prey in front of them, and when they remained silent about their treacherous and criminal rulers who provide the criminal entity with the means of life, protect it, close the borders, and prevent you from supporting them.

O Muslims: A single sentence from an old woman bereaved over the capture of her son, "O Mansour, everyone is happy except me," made Al-Hajjaj Al-Mansour turn around with his army and call out to them not to dismount from their horses and set off to liberate her son and the rest of the prisoners from the fortress in which they were being held, and the protection of Muslim women and the preservation of their honor made Qutaiba bin Muslim not accept the ransom and order the killing of those who attack Muslims and say his famous saying "No, by God, no Muslim woman will ever be terrified by you," and the cry of "Wa Mu'tasimah" from a Muslim woman was enough for Al-Mu'tasim to prepare a huge army to liberate her, and a cry from the free women made Muhammad bin al-Qasim shake the throne of the king of Sindh because he detained a ship of Muslim women and took them as prisoners, and before all that, the exposure of the private parts of a Muslim woman made the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, expel Banu Qaynuqa' from Medina, so has the nation and its armies lacked the brave men who are jealous of their religion and their free women?! What is wrong with you, O Muslims, what has befallen you? Have you been afflicted with weakness and inclined to the life of this world?! Has the jealousy for the religion of God and its sanctities disappeared from your hearts and minds?! Then, O armies, how can you enjoy life when this is the state of your free women?! Do you not reckon with a day when you will stand before God, and He will take revenge on you for disobeying His command and forsaking His servants?!

The Women's Section

In the Central Media Office

of Hizb ut-Tahrir