"... Amnesty International's 2022 report
on the Israeli system of apartheid found that Israeli authorities have
abused and sexually harassed Palestinians in detention for decades. More
recently, the UN disclosed reports
of Palestinian women and girls being "subjected to multiple forms of
sexual assault", including rape, at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
Earlier this week, Unrwa announced an upcoming report
detailing Israeli forces' torture and abuse of more than 1,000
Palestinians of all genders in Gaza. After watching several videos of
soldiers gleefully digging through Palestinian women's underwear, one
cannot help but agonise over the violations taking place behind the
scenes. This agony looms over the disturbing photo posted by 25-year-old Israeli solider Benjamin, a French citizen, to his dating profile. Legs spread wide, gun in hand, he smirks at a range of Palestinian women's lingerie hanging on a wall.
This exhibition of genocidal spoils curated by the occupiers raises a host of haunting questions: where are the people who once wore those garments now? Did Israeli soldiers force them from their homes at gunpoint or even kill them before posing for their photoshoots? Did any of them tear the lingerie from women's bodies, and if so, what horrors could these Palestinians have been subjected to?
To what end does the Zionist soldier in pursuit of a romantic partner openly mock Palestinians' capacity for profoundly loving, sexual relationships? Why does the Zionist soldier offer his own partner necklaces and shoes looted from dead and displaced Palestinians, and what do such gestures reveal about settler-colonialism's mutilation of romance?"
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