UN rapporteur slams Israel for killing ‘Palestinian women in thousands’
Israel’s attacks in Palestine have normalised atrocities worldwide, according to a UN expert.
“What happens in Palestine does not stay in Palestine,” UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Reem Alsalem said during a UN briefing on Palestinian rights.
“The killing of Palestinian women and girls in the thousands, and the infliction of horrors on them, is really the most defining moment that declares that the world no longer cares,” said Alsalem.
She said the situation has been so normalised “that no one now bats an eyelid about what is happening to women and girls in conflict and crisis elsewhere”.
Alsalem acknowledged that the scale of atrocities defies existing frameworks.
“The current legal terminology, the concepts and the legal frameworks that we have are inadequate in front of the monstrosity and the scale and the horrors of what Palestinians have been going through,” she said.
Lapid slams Haredi protests after Israeli flag burned
The Israeli opposition leader has condemned “the despicable and criminal draft-dodging demonstration” in West Jerusalem.
“They burned an Israeli flag, raised a sign calling Israel an enemy state, incited against the IDF and its fighters, and attacked media personnel, police officers, and passers-by,” he said in a post on X.
He added: “Why isn’t the Prime Minister condemning this? Why isn’t there a minister demanding an investigation? In the capital of the Jewish people, there was an anti-Zionist demonstration yesterday, and the government is silent.”
A mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription was held in the city yesterday, with packed crowds of mostly men clogging the roads around the Route 1 highway leading into Jerusalem.
Israeli media estimated that about 200,000 people flocked to the rally.
The debate over mandatory military service, and those who are exempt from it, has long caused tensions within Israel’s deeply divided society and has placed Netanyahu under increasing political strain over the past year.
Anti-Netanyahu protest on Tel Aviv beach
