The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that it had received alarming reports from northern Gaza of mass detentions as well as ill-treatment and enforced disappearances of perhaps thousands of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. Among them were women and children; Many were stopped trying to go south or during operations at their homes, hospitals, schools and shelters. The Ohchr report states that there are children and the elderly among the detainees.
“Complaints include children as young as 12 and people as young as 70 years old among those detained. What is most worrying is that, according to numerous reports, many of those detained were subjected to serious ill-treatment. These included many being forced to strip down to their underwear, “There are also allegations that he was blindfolded and tightly handcuffed, filmed and photographed in deliberately degrading positions, without clothing, and with little food and water, before being transported to unknown detention locations,” the text reads.
Other information obtained by the UN organization includes the information that 140 women and girls are still arbitrarily detained in unknown locations. The report emphasizes that the Israeli military claimed that the IDF was only detaining Palestinians “linked to Hamas” and that it had “good reason” to suspect that all Palestinians remaining in northern Gaza were not complying with the order to move south. “OHCHR notes that Israel’s instructions to move civilians south do not in any way relieve Israel of its obligations under international humanitarian law. Tens of thousands of civilians remain in northern Gaza, and Israel maintains its obligations to ensure their respect and protection.” report statuses.
OHCHR also received reports of killings of civilians, including alleged extrajudicial killings, in places of refuge, particularly schools. Nearly 19,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza health officials, and thousands of Palestinians have been trapped under the rubble of Israeli airstrikes since Oct. 7, when Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostage in a surprise raid. The Israeli army said today that 121 soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground offensive on October 27, when tanks and infantry began advancing towards cities and refugee camps in the Strip.
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