May Golan
Israeli Minister of Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women
Golan, as Israeli Minister of Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women, legitimised attacks on the personal honour and dignity of Palestinian women, supported policies that led to the physical destruction of women and children, encouraged systematic persecution of women, and sanctioned inhumane acts that caused great suffering, in violation of the obligations to protect civilians during armed conflict and to observe fundamental human rights.
“I don’t care about Gaza. I literally don’t care at all. They can go out and swim in the sea. I want to see dead bodies of terrorists around Gaza”
13.10.2023 - May Golan
November 8, 2024, Gaza City-Gaza (AA - Dawoud Abo Alkas)
Crimes under Rome Statute
Article 8, 2-b (xxi):Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment
Article 7, 1-k:Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering
Article 6, 1-c:Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions oflife calculated to bring about its physical destruction
Article 7, 1-h:Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious grounds”
“Every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did when their families were murdered...”
19.02.2024 - May Golan
March 18, 2025, Deir al-Balah-Gaza (AA - Ali Jadallah)
Crimes under Rome Statute
Article 6, 1-a:Killing members of the group
Article 6, 1-c:Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions oflife calculated to bring about its physical destruction
Article 7, 1-h:Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious grounds”
Article 8, 2-b (i):Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population
“We need to eliminate and thwart all the collaborators, in silence and in active support of the Nazis in Hamas! The supporters and helpers of the Nazis should also die. This is true both for ‘journalists’ and for all those ‘innocent uninvolved”
09.11.2023 - May Golan
January 11, 2025, Deir al-Balah-Gaza (AA - Ashraf Amra)
Crimes under Rome Statute
Article 6, 1-a:Killing members of the group
Article 6, 1-c:Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions oflife calculated to bring about its physical destruction
Article 7, 1-h:Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious grounds”
Article 8, 2-b (i):Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population