Israel has been accused of acts of sexual violence against Palestinians in prisons and other detention centres. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel has been accused of acts of sexual violence against Palestinians in prisons and other detention centres. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel halts contact with UN chief Guterres, condemning his sexual violence blacklist as "outrageous" and politically biased.

Israel’s foreign ministry said it would sever all ties with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel’s foreign ministry said it would sever all ties with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

UN investigators faced “continued denial of access” from authorities in both countries. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

UN investigators faced “continued denial of access” from authorities in both countries. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel and Russia are now included in the "list of parties credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence" in armed conflict on the agenda of the Security Council.

Israel and Russia are now included in the "list of parties credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence" in armed conflict on the agenda of the Security Council.

The Israeli mission to the UN said it will have no contact with Antonio Guterres' office as long as he serves as the head of the organisation.

The Israeli mission to the UN said it will have no contact with Antonio Guterres' office as long as he serves as the head of the organisation.

The Israeli mission to the UN said it will have no contact with Antonio Guterres' office as long as he serves as the head of the organisation.

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees.

Israeli officials blast the U.N. after accusing the body of placing Israel on a sexual violence blacklist that also includes Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The United Nations is adding Israel to its "blacklist" of countries and organizations suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, according to Israel's YNet news.

This year's United Nations report on sexual violence in conflict zones will include Israeli entities in an annex of entities responsible for or suspected of carrying conflict-related sexual violence,…

When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, The New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and an unnaturally allied foreign regime at that, a pulse might be detected in the moribund state that is the Fourth Estate. In his piece alleging a campaign of sexual violence against Palestinians by Israel’s security apparatus, he shines some blistering light on practices long suspected and discussed. It begins a proposition that, “Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.”