{"id":218,"date":"2024-08-07T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/state-dept-calls-for-israel-to-investigate-allegations-of-horrific-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:01:06","slug":"state-dept-calls-for-israel-to-investigate-allegations-of-horrific-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/state-dept-calls-for-israel-to-investigate-allegations-of-horrific-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"State Dept calls for Israel to investigate allegations of \u2018horrific\u2019 sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The US State Department called allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers \u201chorrific\u201d and said Israel must investigate \u201cswiftly\u201d and \u201cfully,\u201d according to a State Department spokesperson.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            \u201cThere ought to be zero tolerance of any sexual abuse, rape, of any detainees, period,\u201d said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller at a press briefing.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Israeli media obtained leaked surveillance video that allegedly showed Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            \u201cWhen there are alleged violations, the government of Israel needs to take steps to investigate those who are alleged to have committed abuses and, if appropriate, hold them accountable,\u201d said Miller, who called the IDF announcement of arrests of those alleged to have involved and an investigation \u201cappropriate.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            A report released by the UN Human Rights Office last week said Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have faced torture, mistreatment and sexual abuse since October 7 and that least 53 have died in detention.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department called allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers \u201chorrific\u201d and said Israel must investigate \u201cswiftly\u201d and \u201cfully,\u201d according to a State Department spokesperson. \u201cThere ought to be zero tolerance of any sexual abuse, rape, of any detainees, period,\u201d said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller at a press briefing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}