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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Civilian Palestinian men stripped and detained by Israeli army in Gaza</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Nadda Osman and Aina J Khan in London and Nader Durgham in Beirut</div>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">December 7, 2023<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces stripped dozens of civilian <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> men of their clothes before detaining them and taking them to an undisclosed location, footage published on Thursday showed. </p>
<p>An eyewitness said at least seven men were shot dead by troops for
not complying with the soldiers’ orders fast enough, according to the <a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/ar/article/6011/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%85" target="_blank">Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor</a>. </p>
<p>The men were reportedly rounded up from homes and schools sheltering displaced families in the northern Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Diaa al-Kahlout, a journalist working for the <a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/entertainment_media/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%83%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA" target="_blank">Al Araby Al Jadeed</a>, was identified amongst them.</p>
<p>The Euro-Mediterranean monitor said doctors, academics, journalists and seniors were among those detained. </p>
<p>Israeli troops on Thursday stormed the Khalifa Bin Zayed al-Nahyan
and Aleppo schools in Beit Lahia after encircling them for days. </p>
<p>Footage taken by residents and reporters shows Israeli <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1732746357788545420" target="_blank">snipers</a> taking position on rooftops of homes near the Khalifa school. Another <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1732749221848027353" target="_blank">video</a> showed bodies of dead men reportedly strewn in the courtyards of the Aleppo school. </p>
<p>Middle East Eye could not independently verify the footage. </p>
<p>After forcing everyone out of the schools, Israeli soldiers arrested the men and let the women and children <a href="https://twitter.com/AJA_Egypt/status/1732769056388772298" target="_blank">flee on foot</a>. </p>
<p>They then went home to home in some neighbourhoods in Beit Lahia,
removing residents before arresting the men and setting some homes
ablaze, according to the Euro-Mediterranean monitor. </p>
<p>The Geneva-based group said the men were arrested arbitrarily and beaten by soldiers. </p>
<p>Footage published on Israeli Telegram pages and media showed dozens
of men rounded up, with their clothes stripped off, their eyes covered
and their hands tied. </p>
<p>Some videos showed them in a residential area before being loaded
onto trucks. Another photo showed them lined up in an open sandy area.</p>
<p>It was not clear where they were taken to. </p>
<p>The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the mass arrests. </p>
<p>Some Israeli media said the men are “possible” Hamas operatives but no further details were provided. </p>
<p>Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, denied that there
had been mass arrests of the group’s members and likened the arrests to
“Nazi concentration camps”. </p>
<p>He told Al Araby TV the footage shows the “arrest and abuse of
unarmed civilians who have nothing to do with military operations”. </p>
<h3>Food queues</h3>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1732684596142059680" target="_blank">footage from Deir al-Balah</a> shared
on Wednesday and Thursday showed queues of desperate Palestinians
outside food distribution centres, as resources continue to deplete
rapidly. </p>
<p>According to a new report by the <a href="https://twitter.com/SamerWFP/status/1732441923409887420?s=20" target="_blank">United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)</a>, at least 97 percent of households in northern Gaza have “inadequate food” to meet their needs. </p>
<p>The report also found that at least nine out of 10 people are going a
full day and night without food in the south of Gaza. Additionally,
more than one-third of households are suffering from high to severe
levels of hunger.</p>
<p>The heavy bombardment has hampered aid efforts, as the Rafah area was bombed on Thursday. </p>
<p>According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the Israeli bombing
killed at least 350 Palestinians and left 900 wounded on Wednesday. </p>
<p>This took the death toll since the start of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-palestine-war" target="_blank">the war </a>on 7 October to more than 17,100, including over 7,00o children and nearly 5,000 women.</p>
<p>The head of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
described the situation in Gaza as going “far beyond a humanitarian
crisis”.</p>
<p>"It is a humanitarian catastrophe. It is a chaotic situation, and I'm
extremely worried that very soon people will be in a mode of just
trying to survive, which will come with very severe consequences,”
Christos Christou, a doctor, said. </p>
<h3>Israel and Lebanon skirmishes </h3>
<p>Skirmishes between the Israeli army and the Lebanese group Hezbollah continued on Thursday.</p>
<p>Israel’s rescue service, Magen David Adom, said a 60-year-old was
killed by an anti-tank missile fired from the direction of Lebanon
towards the Israeli village of Mattat.</p>
<p>Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said several launches were
detected from south Lebanon, and that the army responded by attacking at
the source of fire. </p>
<p>Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to turn
the Lebanese capital Beirut and southern Lebanon "into Gaza and Khan
Younis", should Hezbollah go for an all-out war, Axios reported. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/lebanon-deadly-israeli-attack-on-journalists-must-be-investigated-as-a-war-crime/" target="_blank">Amnesty</a>
International determined that Israeli strikes on a group of seven
journalists in south Lebanon on 13 October should be investigated as a
"war crime".</p>
<p>The Israeli strike killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and
injured six others, and was "likely a direct attack on civilians",
Amnesty International said.</p>
<p>In the occupied West Bank, Israeli raids also continued, with at
least 42 Palestinians detained overnight and in pre-dawn raids. Half of
those detained were Palestinian workers from Gaza, according to the Wafa
news agency. </p>
<p>Since 7 October, Israel has detained more than 3,640 Palestinians, Wafa reported.</p>
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