UN report on "gender based violence" by the IDF includes ludicrous lies by "witnesses" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, May 19, 2025

UN report on "gender based violence" by the IDF includes ludicrous lies by "witnesses"

In March, the UN "Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel" issued a report on alleged gender-based violence by the IDF in Gaza.

Section 4 begins with a quote from an anonymous "witness":

I saw a pregnant woman who was shot and killed as she was approaching the hospital. She was left there bleeding. Nobody managed to rescue her as the hospital was under siege by the Israeli forces. She was found in a decomposed state about 20 days later.

- A witness from al-Awda hospital in Gaza

Later we learn more alleged details:

32. The Commission documented a case of a pregnant woman who was killed by an ISF sniper outside the al-Awda hospital during the siege of the hospital in December 2023. Witnesses told the Commission that the pregnant woman was shot close to the hospital building, as she was walking towards the hospital. The hospital area was occupied by Israeli forces at the time and, and as a result, people were afraid to offer the woman aid. According to a witness, no one could reach her due to the presence of ISF and she died due to her injuries. According to some sources, her body was left there to decompose..

There is no footnote indicating when and where this interview occurred. Or whether it came from an anonymous text message. Or whether it was made up.

A pregnant woman shot by a sniper, and whose body was left there for 20 days?

This never happened.

First of all, the IDF was outside the hospital from December 5-17, 2023, which is not "20 days."

But more importantly, if a pregnant woman was shot by IDF snipers in December 2023, the news would have been all over the place - not just Al Jazeera but CNN and the New York Times too. Her name would be famous. Her grieving husband and parents would be located and interviewed. Photos of her body, taken with telephoto lenses, would be all over social media.

Yet there is not one news story or social media post from the time, in Arabic or English, of a pregnant woman shot by the IDF outside Al Awda Hospital.

It is simply a lie.

But it is a lie that fits perfectly with the antisemitic attitude of the UN. To them, of course Jews shoot pregnant women outside hospitals and leave them to rot in front of everyone. What even bother fact checking what is so obviously true?

The UN commission found two people willing to repeat a rumor they had heard, or possibly that they made up. The details are different, indicating that they are lying, but the "human rights experts" report all versions of the story as potentially true.

The end of the paragraph shows that other stories were passed to the UN, good enough to sow suspicion but not good enough for the UN to declare them documented:

The Commission received additional information about another woman who was shot in front of her son outside the same hospital, but it could not verify the information.

In other words, the commission knows that Gaza witnesses are untrustworthy and will say what Hamas wants them to say. But since the commission itself also will say whatever Hamas wants, this is fine. It will report any wild rumor without corroboration.

This is the level of rigor and fact checking one can expect from UN commissions of inquiry. No anti-Israel rumor is too outrageous to be believed, and Gaza citizens who have every incentive to be on Hamas' good side will say what they are expected to say to any investigators.