Israel/Palestine Thread

The absence of even a drop of humanity is striking. These are Israeli soldiers who used iron bars and brush handles to rape handcuffed detainees. The only question remaining is whether they drugged the detainees to make it like a date / Einstein era rape?

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz recently met with the soldiers responsible for raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman torture facility, ordering their reinstatement to the army and apologizing to them for the “injustice” they faced. 

The meeting came days after the charges against them were officially dropped. 

According to Hebrew media reports, including Channel 14, the soldiers from Force 100 attended the meeting with Katz wearing masks, in order to conceal their identities.

During the meeting, Katz told the soldiers, “I apologize for the injustice the system has done to you,” referring to the investigations opened against them and the “psychological harm” he said was caused by the military legal process.

I suppose one bonus of the current war is that the IDF are very stretched and simply haven't got the time and manpower to bomb and kill the Gazans.

Green shoots?

FIFA fined the Israeli Football Association (IFA) 150,000 Swiss francs ($190,700) for “multiple breaches” of its anti-discrimination obligations.

A report on Thursday by the disciplinary committee of world football’s governing body found the IFA “failed to take meaningful action against Beitar Jerusalem” for “persistent and well-documented racist behaviour”.

In October 2024, the Palestine Football Association reported allegations of discrimination by the IFA to FIFA, which initiated an investigation.

FIFA did not opt for the sanction requested by the Palestinian FA, which argued for a suspension of the IFA.

This is exactly the space that zionists want to contain the west in, afraid to say the words Palestine, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Hamas, Nakba, olive tree. They want nation states to make laws against such language. The Hijab and Palestine Action are the precursors.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-bans-voice-of-hind-rajab-citing-threats-israel-relationship

Karim Khan unanimously cleared. All allegations were without foundation. Not clear if the complainants will have to pay damages? Hopefully a decision on genocide can be made now.

Karim Khan has denied the allegations and took voluntary leave from his position in May.

By Edna Mohamed

Published On 21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026

Judges have cleared the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, of all wrongdoing after an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct, Middle East Eye reports.

Middle East Eye says that a panel of three judges submitted a confidential report to the court’s oversight body, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), on March 9.

According to two diplomatic sources who read the report and two other diplomatic sources briefed on it, the judges unanimously found that the information presented in a report by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Service (OIOS) “did not establish any misconduct or breach of duty”.

“The Panel is unanimously of the opinion that the factual findings by OIOS do not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the relevant framework,” the report concluded, according to the sources.

The OIOS investigation was commissioned by the head of the ASP in November 2024 after a member of Khan’s office accused the prosecutor of sexual misconduct.

In August last year, a second woman came forward and alleged that Khan had abused his power over her while she was working for the British lawyer.

The woman had described his behaviour to UK newspaper The Guardian last year as a “constant onslaught” of advances.

That is great news. Once Hamas is fully disarmed, Gaza will be at peace.

They say now when hamas are completely disarmed that peace will come to Palestine…..

If Hamas disarm then the Settlers will rampage in Gaza. Similarly the penny has finally dropped in Lebanon that disarming Hezbollah was part of the plan for Israel to take ownership of the area of Lebanon south of the Litani river.

Aoun said the attacks on the bridge were “an attempt to sever the geographical connection between the southern Litani region and the rest of Lebanese territory”.

He said they fell “within suspicious schemes to establish a buffer zone along the Israeli border, solidify the reality of the occupation and seek Israeli expansion within Lebanese territory”.