On 5 June, 2024, the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University organized a symposium on the Zionist colonial machine's attack on the Palestinian boy, against Palestinian men and women, on the ground and in captivity. Moderated by Amira Silmi from the Institute of Women’s Studies, panelists included Islah Jad, Rula Abu Daho, and Lena Meari from the Institute of Women’s Studies, Rami Salameh from the Department of Cultural Studies, and Tasneem Al-Qadi, a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies. The discussion focused on the Israeli occupation's use of attacks on the Palestinian body, Including those of a sexual nature, and the documentation and circulation of these images with the aim of humiliation in attempt to suppress anti-colonial resistance.

Discussion revolved around existing methods of confrontation and violation of the Palestinian body with emphasis on the rejection of attempts to strip the violated body of its collective and resistant national character. Questions were posed on the silence accompanying sexual attacks on Palestinian men and women and the need to recognize the occupation's objectives in using such practices as one of the instruments of colonial repression, restraint and subjugation. The importance of a popular collective base was called for to support prisoners and women who have been subjected to such violations and to restore political meaning and resistance to violated bodies as parts of a collective Palestinian body.