The Israeli public largely supports this, given that Israel is a western democracy, it's not surprising that the state behaves in a way that matches the hearts and minds of its people.
Not to excuse violations of human rights in Israel... but it's not like Iran is any better [1], and Hamas and the other groups that joined in on Oct 7th also committed copious amounts of sexual violence [2], and hostages claimed being sexually abused as well [3].
Iran isnt' getting tax dollars from the united states to commit their 6e|\|0c|de.
Its 2026 and its now controversial to say that a adherence to broad respect for human rights should be a minimum bar for being considered a proper western democracy.
Truly no side is innocent here.
[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/22/iran-security-forces-rap...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen...
[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/04/middleeast/israeli-hostag...