On May 29, 2026, the United Nations added Israeli entities to its official “blacklist” of parties that commit sexual violence in conflict zones. These entities include the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Police, and the Israel Prison Service (IPS), which the UN claims has been systematically sexually abusing Palestinian detainees.

According to the report, the “verified” cases involved horrifying violations against 14 men, seven women, nine boys, and one girl. These included rape, gang rape, forced nudity, and brutal violence to the genitals — allegedly carried out by officers from the Israeli military, police, and prison service.

With this move, Israel has now been placed on the same blacklist as Hamas — the terror group added only last year, despite overwhelming evidence of its mass rape on October 7, 2023, and its continued sexual abuse of women and children in Gaza.

Did the UN Even Investigate?

The UN claimed its efforts to investigate were blocked by the Israeli government, which supposedly threatened detainees to stop them from speaking out. But Israel has affirmed this is completely false.

Over the past year, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and his team held multiple meetings with representatives of Secretary-General António Guterres. Israel handed over extensive documents, detailed data, and comprehensive written responses to every single claim. They even invited UN officials to visit the sites of the alleged atrocities to examine the claims up close.

But the UN refused.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry declared it had “comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations.”

The Bombshell Admission

Pramila Patten, the UN’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the author of the report, made a stunning admission at a press conference: she never verified the allegations herself.

“I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered,” Patten said. “It’s not the responsibility of my office to do any verification. I am a recipient. I compile that information and I present it to the Secretary-General.”

When pressed on whether she had seen any evidence with her own eyes, she replied bluntly: “No, because it’s not my job.”

This is especially damning because the UN report itself accused Israel of denying access to detention facilities — even though Patten openly admitted she had zero intention of visiting them anyway.

No Evidence, Just Accusations

This pattern is nothing new. In a May 2025 report, the UN accused Israel of the “systematic use of sexual and gender-based violence.” Yet despite the extreme severity of the claim, the report failed to deliver real proof.

Many accusations were shockingly weak: Israeli soldiers ordering Muslim women to remove veils during security checks were labeled sexual assault. Routine security procedures — such as forcing captured Hamas terrorists to strip before detention to check for hidden weapons or bombs — were also branded as sexual abuse.

Serious claims of rape, molestation, and murder relied almost entirely on secondhand Palestinian testimony. Despite mentioning hundreds of incidents, the UN produced zero photos, zero videos, and zero forensic evidence of actual sexual assaults by Israelis.

Even in the rare cases where video footage exists, it fails to support the UN’s claims. The report highlights an incident at Sde Teiman, where five Israeli prison guards were accused of abusing a single Palestinian detainee. After an extensive and public investigation by Israeli authorities, charges were dropped because the video does not show the abuse described, and the detainee himself gave conflicting versions of the events to different officials.

Even more telling, the report condemned Israel for “humiliating” captured Hamas terrorists who had confessed to raping and murdering civilians on October 7. The UN argued that releasing videos of these confessions violated the prisoners’ “due process” and left them in an “extremely vulnerable position.”

In other words, the UN seemed more outraged by the public exposure of admitted Hamas rapists than by the horrific crimes they proudly carried out.

The Ignored Crisis: Sexual Abuse in Palestinian Society

While the UN fixates on Israel, systematic sexual violence within Palestinian society continues with shockingly little international scrutiny.

On April 26, 2026, the Daily Mail exposed how children in Gaza are being sexually abused and exploited to recruit them into Hamas. Boys attending mosques are reportedly assaulted by clerics or religious figures, then silenced with fear, shame, and blackmail — threatened that the abuse will be exposed if they don’t join the terror group.

Separate reports from April 2026 revealed Hamas’s sexual exploitation of desperate Gazan women who turn to charity organizations for food or money.

The deeper problem is cultural and systemic. According to the U.S. State Department, neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas effectively enforces rape laws. The Palestinian Authority doesn’t even have a specific law against sexual harassment, even though it is widespread in both Gaza and the West Bank. Women who report abuse are often blamed for “provoking” it.

Domestic violence is rampant. Palestinian NGOs say one in five Palestinian women experience physical abuse from their husbands, with rates significantly higher in Gaza. Many women don’t report it, fearing retaliation or knowing authorities won’t help.

Both Palestinian governments are notoriously secretive about internal crime statistics. International searches for “Palestinian rape statistics” mostly return accusations against Israel instead. Activists and institutions that obsessively track alleged Israeli wrongdoing show far less interest in the suffering of Palestinian women and children at the hands of their own society.

The Unforgettable Shadow of October 7

Ultimately, all of this occurs against the horrific backdrop of October 7, 2023 — when Hamas and Gazan terrorists invaded Israel and unleashed an orgy of mass murder, torture, kidnapping, rape, and sexual mutilation against Israeli civilians, both living and dead.

Bottom Line

The United Nations, draped in the lofty language of human rights, has once again revealed itself as a shameless propaganda machine that weaponizes the sacred cause of protecting victims of sexual violence to slander the Jewish state. While real rapists from Hamas are coddled and their atrocities minimized, Israel is smeared with unverified, contradictory, and often laughably absurd allegations.

The UN actively betrays real victims of sexual violence by obsessing over imaginary Israeli crimes and willfully ignoring the epidemic of rape and child abuse rotting Palestinian society. In doing so, it has destroyed whatever shred of credibility it still pretended to have.

Sources

Jerusalem Post, UN Watch, UN, Times of Israel, UNHRC, Daily Mail, Daily Mail, Ynet News, US State Department, Israel Truth Network