{"id":35765,"date":"2026-05-29T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35765"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:26:41","slug":"israel-freezes-co-operation-with-un-over-sexual-violence-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israel-freezes-co-operation-with-un-over-sexual-violence-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel freezes co-operation with UN over sexual violence report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has announced that his country is freezing cooperation with the Office of UN Secretary General (SG) Antonio Guterres, following a decision to include Israel in the annual report on conflict-related sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which has not yet been officially released by the UN but was distributed to correspondents by the Israeli Mission, lists both state and non-state parties responsible for sexual violence in armed conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas are among those listed, alongside actors in other conflict regions including Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali, and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>In listing Israel, the report cited violations including rape, gang rape, physical violence to the genitals, and forced nudity, among other violations against detained Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas was also listed following allegations of sexual violence made by hostages held after the October 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said the listing was a moral disgrace and that it demonstrated the UN\u2019s Gutteres had lost all credibility. He said Israel was suspending all co-operation with the SG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>A Spokesperson for Guterres said the Secretary General\u2019s door remained open to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34746,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35765","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A Spokesperson for Guterres said the Secretary General\u2019s door remained open to Israel.","published_date":"","news_description":"A Spokesperson for Guterres said the Secretary General\u2019s door remained open to Israel.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35767,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35765\/revisions\/35767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}