“WHERE IS HAMAS?”
The military has mentioned it was detaining and questioning individuals suspected of involvement in what it calls terrorist exercise, with out disclosing numbers, as a part of its operations in Gaza. These discovered to not be concerned in terrorism or combating had been launched, it mentioned.
Shamlakh mentioned troops had been working with tanks within the space the place he lives, Zeitoun in Gaza Metropolis, in a single day on Monday. At about 6.30am on Tuesday they destroyed a wall, entered the home and interrogated him over the following few hours, he mentioned.
“They’d ask me ‘the place is Hamas?’ I might say ‘I do not know’. ‘The place are the tunnels? The place are the shops of weapons?’ I instructed them ‘I am a civilian, I am a civilian’,” mentioned Shamlakh.
Dr Anas Al-Kurd mentioned Shamlakh had accidents throughout his physique and the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital didn’t have all of the provides it wanted to deal with him appropriately.
“He was speculated to be transferred to the European Hospital in order that he may very well be seen by a watch specialist, however the occupying forces had been positioned on the Al Rashid route and had reduce it off,” he mentioned. “So this younger man stays with us, struggling in ache and all he can take are painkillers.”
Reuters and different media have reported different incidents through which individuals detained by Israeli forces in Gaza have alleged that they had been overwhelmed and subjected to degrading therapy.
Reuters reviews have included a girl who mentioned she was imprisoned for weeks, insulted and mistreated; a health care provider who mentioned he was shackled, blindfolded and disadvantaged of sleep throughout a 45-day detention; and three brothers who mentioned they and fellow detainees had been overwhelmed, stripped to their underwear and burnt with cigarettes.
The Israeli army didn’t touch upon the main points of any of these allegations, however mentioned that its protocols had been to deal with detainees with dignity and that incidents through which the rules weren’t adopted can be seemed into. It has beforehand denied focusing on or abusing civilians.
The battle was triggered by Hamas militants from Gaza who attacked southern Israel on Oct 7, killing 1,200 individuals and taking 253 individuals hostage, based on Israel.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel has responded with an air and floor assault on densely populated Gaza which has killed greater than 29,400 individuals, based on native well being authorities which don’t distinguish between combatant and non-combatant casualties.
Israel’s offensive has displaced a lot of the strip’s 2.3 million individuals, precipitated widespread starvation and illness, and laid waste to a lot of the territory.
