UPDATING LIVE: Security Council briefing on sexual violence in Israel, Gaza and West Bank

Amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the war in Gaza, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, briefed the Security Council in New York on her sexual violence report relating to the 7 October attacks. She said while nothing can justify the “deliberate violence” perpetrated by Hamas, nothing could justify “the collective punishment of the people in Gaza”.
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