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The Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi said his forces "not on a killing spree, revenge or genocide" according to a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz.

"We must be careful not to use force where it is not required, to distinguish between terrorist and non-terrorist, not to take anything that is not ours – a souvenir or military item – and not to film revenge videos," said Halevi.

Israeli forces according the UN and other human rights organisations has waged a unprecedented war on Gaza resulting in more than 100,000 Palestinians mostly women and children being killed and wounded in the spree.

While Israeli forces have been documented in torturing Palestinian men and made videos looting Palestinian homes.

On Monday UN experts decried reports of rape and sexual assault of Palestinian women and girls held in Israeli detention.

The independent experts, part of the UN’s fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, confirmed in a statement receiving reports of Palestinian female detainees being subjected to “multiple forms of sexual assault,” with at least two detainees reportedly raped, while others were allegedly threatened with rape and sexual violence