Israel separating families in Gaza, taking men to undisclosed locations in mass arrest campaign, activists say

[WhiteTara]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-separating-families-in-gaza-taking-men-to-undisclosed-locations-in-mass-arrest-campaign-activists-say
Dec 15, 2023 5:44 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected to hunger and cold, according to human rights activists, distraught relatives and released detainees themselves.

Palestinians detained in the shattered town of Beit Lahiya, the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya and neighborhoods of Gaza City said they were bound, blindfolded and bundled into the backs of trucks. Some said they were taken to the camp at an undisclosed location, nearly naked and with little water.

“We were treated like cattle, they even wrote numbers on our hands,” said Ibrahim Lubbad, a 30-year-old computer engineer arrested in Beit Lahiya on Dec. 7 with a dozen other family members and held overnight. “We could feel their hatred.”

The roundups have laid bare an emerging tactic in Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza, experts say, as the military seeks to solidify control in evacuated areas in the north and collect intelligence about Hamas operations nearly 10 weeks after the group’s deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. Militants killed about 1,200 people and abducted over 240 that day.

[claudette]

1. So 🥲

cruel

[WhiteTara]

2. all of it.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Israel must have a disproportionately large prison system in that tiny country

[WhiteTara]

5. I read thousands are in jail

many without charges. I'll find the link if you would like.

[dickthegrouch]

4. There goes Mossad's reputation

I thought they were the most sophisticated intelligence operation on the planet. If they have to resort to this kind of Neanderthal behavior, they don’t deserve the reputation.

[Grey]

6. Concentration Camps,?

History repeating its self?

[claudette]

8. What happened to

Never Again

[David__77]

7. Fascism.