‘Forced us to undress’: Palestinian women detail Israeli sexual assaults in Kamal Adwan raid

Before anything else happened, Maryam al-Muqayad says male Israeli troops told to take off her clothes.

Then, the soldiers took the 13-year-old Palestinian girl, dragged her by her hair and made her kneel down. When they had stopped abusing her, they forced her to leave northern Gaza, her home, and make her way south.

She was not alone.

Dozens of Palestinian women and girls reported similar sexual abuses committed against them by Israeli forces during the storming of Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the wartorn coastal enclave last month. 

The incursion was preceded by nearly three months of a blockade preventing the entry of aid, medicine and food, as well as heavy bombardment in the hospital’s complex and vicinity.

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