Israel arbitrarily arrests unarmed civilians in degrading treatment
(Egypt، Theosis Across Borders)
Yesterday, Thursday, video clips and pictures spread in Israeli media and on social media platforms showing dozens of Palestinian prisoners in northern Gaza, handcuffed, blindfolded, and stripped of their clothes.
Some activists volunteered to explain the video, which shows a group of naked people being transported in a military vehicle, that they are some Hamas fighters who have surrendered themselves to the Israeli authorities, and that the Israeli authorities are stripping them of their clothes to ensure that there are no suicide bombers with explosive belts hidden inside them.
While others volunteered to liken them to Christ at the time of the crucifixion, or to the Coptic martyrs in Libya before their execution by ISIS.
Today, Friday, the Israeli army held a press conference to make statements about these photos, in which Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli army, said that the army was investigating whether these detainees were related to the Hamas movement, confirming his reports to official media.
He said in text:
“Jabalia and Shuja’iya are centers of gravity for terrorists and we are fighting them. They hide underground and come out and we are fighting them. Those who remain in those areas emerge from the openings of the tunnels, and some of them from the buildings.”
(Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesman)
وتابع:
“We are investigating who is linked to Hamas and who is not. We arrest them all and interrogate them.”
(Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesman)
It is an explicit acknowledgment of the random arrest of unarmed civilians, taking them in degrading treatment without security justification, and putting them on military trial by an “occupying army” and not their natural judge, without any guarantees of integrity, and in a way that reminds us of the concentration camps for the Jews themselves in the Holocaust, amid frequent reports of theft. The bodies of dead Palestinians/victims, some of them claiming to steal organs (published in Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, Egypt), and news stories about “skinning” (published in Al-Youm Al-Sabea newspaper, Egypt) in a way that puts the Israeli army in the position of: a contemporary Nazi!
Please cooperate in documenting such photos, videos, and news, and sending them to human rights non-governmental organizations. The matter has become a matter of Israel violating international agreements at the United Nations, and public or journalistic pressure is not enough. Rather, there must be international pressure that takes its legitimate channels through reports submitted by anti-torture activists and human rights activists.
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