Israel is accused of using gender-based violence by the United Nations - allegations it refutes as unfounded, biased, and lacking credibility.

United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of "the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence" in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel rejected the findings as biased and unsubstantiated. The Media Line's intrepid correspondents are in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Pakistan providing first-person reporting. The UN commission stated in its report that Israeli forces deliberately targeted and destroyed Gaza’s primary fertility center while enforcing a blockade that deprived women of medical aid needed for safe pregnancies and childbirth.