Israeli atrocities against Palestinians normalise violence worldwide

Israel’s assaults on Palestinians have set a dangerous global precedent, a UN expert warned.

“What happens in Palestine does not stay in Palestine,” Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said during a briefing on Palestinian rights.

She described the mass killings and brutalisation of Palestinian women and girls as “the most defining moment that declares the world no longer cares.”

Alsalem added that the scale of the atrocities has become so normalised “that no one now bats an eyelid about what is happening to women and girls in conflict and crisis elsewhere.”

She warned that existing legal frameworks are inadequate to confront the horrors Palestinians face.