u/exegenes1s

We all saw the video of the IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian hostage (and yes they're hostages, as they're kidnapped from Gaza without trial or evidence and held indefinitely). We then watched the government decide NOT to punish those responsible, and instead punish the lawyer who publicized the atrocity. The soldier who actually did the assault, Ben-Shitrit, has featured a few times celebrated on Israeli TV (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DStl-wjlk_c). Therefore unofficial state policy is that rape is ok, as there is no punishment for it. During the genocide, several hostages who were released back to Gaza independently reported of being raped with dogs, and seeing others raped with dogs. These interviews were collected and reports made:

(https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6383/Gaza:-Israeli-army-systematically-uses-police-dogs-to-brutally-attack-Palestinian-civilians,-with-at-least-one-reported-rape)

Now an Israeli analyst described interviews with IDF prison guards who also corroborate the practice and say it is continuing today.

https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/20/israeli-guards-admit-dogs-are-used-to-rape-palestinians-says-analyst/

"Guards at Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman torture camp have admitted their colleagues use dogs to rape Palestinian captives there, according to a prominent Israeli analyst.

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a geopolitical expert who opposes Israel’s genocide in Gaza, said he spoke to two guards from the facility about the gruesome form of torture “on more than one occasion”.

“Some have said that claims that Israel uses dogs to sexually abuse prisoners are antisemitic blood libels,” Ben-Ephraim wrote on X on Friday. “Unfortunately, there is a good deal of evidence.”

Of the two guards he spoke to, “one had seen this happen and said it was too awful to talk about. The other said that he had heard about it from others and believed it was true. This happened. This is happening still. The evidence is too overwhelming.”"

This is continuing today. Not a single IDF soldier has been punished to date for torturing prisoners, even though dozens of Palestinian hostages have died in custody (over 84 since 10/7), several have left with amputations due to torture (holding tied down stress positions), and several have admitted being raped.

It it in fact the case that Israel is the first and only state in the modern era to normalize rape as a systematic state policy.

Israeli war crimes continue unabated it seems. In Gaza we saw them bombing hospitals, sniping children ("It was almost a daily occurrence to have children arrive at the hospital with gunshot wounds to the head,” Ndal Farah, a doctor who worked in Gaza, says, adding, “I have been in other war zones, but this was exponentially worse than anything I’ve ever seen.” NYTimes), and designing software to intentionally bomb their targets while they're at home sleeping with their children with a program named "Where's Daddy?". We saw them use a triple tap on Nasser hospital in Gaza, reportedly to take out a journalist's DSLR camera that was on the roof. We saw the video of them attacking 14 medical workers in two ambulances and then literally bury the bodies, crush the ambulances, and bury those too. Yesterday, just a few days after Israel released its most intense ever barrage, killing almost 400 people in ten minutes, they quadruple tapped successive teams of rescue ambulances in south Gaza (text below). None of these war crimes have ever led to a single IDF soldier being punished beyond a demotion. Not one sentence of jail time, even after the very obvious and white World Central Kitchen workers were double tapped. By the way there is a full video of this attack on the rescue workers happening, it's awful to watch.

I'm here asking, why is IDF policy that war crimes are ok? Why are no rules being enforced?

Text below:

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene.

By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks.

One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance.

The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

In total, the attacks killed four medics and wounded six more, from three different ambulance corps, according to medical sources. Three of the medics were from the Hezbollah-affiliated IHA and Amal-affiliated medical corps, while one was from the Nabatieh emergency services organisation. Under international law, all medics are protected and are considered non-combatants, regardless of political affiliation.

Israel has so far killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded 214 more in Lebanon since the Israel-Hezbollah war started on 2 March. It has given little justification for its repeated attacks on medical infrastructure and workers, apart from accusing Hezbollah of using ambulances and hospitals to transport fighters and weapons, without providing evidence for the claim.

The Lebanese ministry of health accused Israel of deliberately targeting ambulance crews. “Paramedics have become direct targets, pursued relentlessly in a blatant violation that confirms a total disregard for all norms and principles established by international humanitarian law,” the ministry said in a statement.

Rape of Palestinian Hostages Continuing in Sde Taiman

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ • Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers