00:00You mentioned sexual violence.
00:01I was part of the human rights vetting process for arms going to Israel,
00:05and a charity called Defense of Children International Palestine
00:08drew our attention at the State Department to the sexual assault,
00:12actually the rape of a 13-year-old boy that occurred in an Israeli prison
00:16in Moscovia in Jerusalem.
00:18We examined these allegations.
00:20We believed they were credible.
00:21We put them to the government of Israel.
00:24And do you know what happened the next day?
00:26Today, the IDF went into the DCIP offices and removed all their computers
00:31and declared them a terrorist entity.
00:34I think it is vital that atrocities not happen to anyone,
00:37not sexual violations, not any kind of gross violation of human rights.
00:42We are looking at a situation where there is so much dehumanification,
00:46where people are not seen for the value that they have.
