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“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual violence, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two Palestinian female detainees have reportedly were raped, while others were allegedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.” This was reported by Ohchr, the United Nations Office for Refugees, citing the “credible accusations of serious human rights violations” expressed by UN experts. According to information from Reem Alsalem, special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (at the center of strong controversies with Israel) and other experts of the working group on discrimination against women and girls, there is also “serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, deprived of sanitary pads, food and medicine and were severely beaten: on at least one occasion, the Ohchr reports on its website, “Palestinian women detained in Gaza were kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food” “We are shocked by reports of deliberate attacks and extrajudicial killings of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge or while fleeing. Some of them reportedly had pieces of white cloth with them when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.