The center said in a statement that it had filed a complaint with the Israeli government’s legal advisor, the legal advisor of the Prison Service, the prison guard investigation unit, and the administration of Givon Prison, demanding an immediate investigation into the testimony given by the German activist and journalist “A.L.”
He explained that the testimony includes allegations of sexual assault, rape, humiliation and physical violence during her detention, following the Israeli navy's interception of the "Global Resilience Flotilla" ships in international waters during October 2025.
Adalah quoted A.L. as saying: “During the transfer of our client from the port to Ketziot Prison (Negev Desert), she, along with other participants in the flotilla, was subjected to physical and verbal violence by security forces and prison service employees.”
He explained that the violence included "restricting her for long periods, using plastic handcuffs, blindfolding, shouting, physical assaults, and threats, including threats of rape."
She continued: "Upon her arrival at Givon prison, she reported that she had been subjected to further acts of extreme violence, followed by sexual assault and rape," explaining that female Israeli guards asked her to strip completely naked, while male guards watched her from behind a curtain.
The center also quoted her as saying: "When she refused to take off her clothes, the female guards forcibly pulled off the clothes until she was forced to undress (...)."
He stressed "the seriousness and illegality of these acts, as they constitute crimes of rape, sexual violence and grave offenses, and require an immediate criminal investigation against all those involved and bringing them to justice."
The human rights center reported that "other activists who participated in the same flotilla contacted A.L. after she made her testimony public, and reported that they had been subjected to similar attacks, some of which amounted to sexual assaults."
He concluded that these "testimonies raise serious concerns that the sexual violence suffered by female detainees at the hands of the Israeli authorities may constitute a recurring pattern of practices that have not been investigated so far."
On January 4th, German journalist Anna Liedtke, 25, revealed to the newspaper Neues Deutschland that she had been raped by Israeli female prison guards. She added at the time, "This isn't about me as an individual; the violence I experienced is just a small part of what Palestinians face every day."
According to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, in a 2024 report, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are subjected to violence, sexual assaults, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.
Since Tel Aviv began its siege of Gaza in the summer of 2007, numerous ships carrying humanitarian aid and peaceful activists have attempted to reach the Palestinian territory, but the Israeli occupation army has stormed and seized them, arresting hundreds of activists.
Last May, Israeli naval forces stormed the latestwave of ships in the "Global Resilience Flotilla" in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea.
Over the years, activists involved in these movements have reported being subjected to sexual assault and physical violence by Israeli soldiers and prison guards during their unlawful detention.
On October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, began a two-year war of genocide in Gaza, leaving approximately 73,000 martyrs and more than 173,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and causing destruction to 90 percent of the infrastructure.
Despite the ceasefire agreement announced on October 10, 2025, Israel continues its genocide through daily bombings that have killed 961 Palestinians and injured 3,020, most of them children and women.
It also prevents the entry of agreed quantities of food, medicine, medical supplies, shelter materials and prefabricated homes into Gaza, where some 2.4 million Palestinians, including 1.5 million displaced people, are living in catastrophic conditions
