Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) torturers systematically use sexual violence and rape against Palestinians held hostage in Israeli torture chambers and during their attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank

Israeli torturers have photographed Palestinian women, including pregnant women, in degrading positions, including in their underwear in front of male soldiers, subjected them to repeated and invasive strip searches, and threatened to rape or actually raped them.

Israelis have systematically raped and sexually assaulted Palestinian men held hostage in Israeli torture chambers, including through the use of electrical probes to cause burns to the anus, as well as the insertion of objects, such as fingers, sticks, broomsticks and vegetables, into hostages' genitalia.

Israeli torturers and settlers also sexually abuse Palestinian children as young as 14.

In 2021, when the NGO Defense for Children - Palestine (DCI-P) exposed that an IOF torturer had physically and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Israeli custody, DCI-P's office was raided by Israeli authorities. The NGO was stripped of its equipment and labelled a "terrorist organisation".

The violence of IOF soldiers increasingly also includes sexual acts intended to feminise or shame not only the victim but the Palestinian community as a whole, in an increasing trend to photograph or film these acts. For example, IOF soldiers committing genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip repeatedly filmed themselves going through Palestinian women's underwear and making sexual comments about the undergarments.