Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed a mass detention by the Israeli military of men\u00a0who were made to strip to their underwear, kneel on the street, wear blindfolds, and pack into the cargo bed of a military vehicle. <\/p>\n
The exact circumstances\u00a0and dates\u00a0of the detentions\u00a0are unclear, but some of the detainees\u2019 identities were confirmed by colleagues or family members. <\/p>\n
The\u00a0<\/em>Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor\u00a0posted an image of one detainment and\u00a0said\u00a0in a statement on its website Thursday\u00a0that \u201cthe Israeli army detained and severely abused dozens of Palestinian civilians.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cEuro-Med Monitor received reports that Israeli forces launched random and arbitrary arrest campaigns against displaced people, including doctors, academics, journalists, and elderly men,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n The Israeli media, without indicating a source, has portrayed the images as the surrender of Hamas members. A journalist asked IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari about the images\u00a0during a news conference\u00a0on Thursday, saying,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve seen images of many captives, Hamas terrorists, that the IDF arrested during the ground maneuvering.\u201d <\/p>\n Hagari said that, in fighting Hamas, \u201cthose left in the area gradually come out.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe investigate and check who has ties to Hamas, and who does not,\u201d he said. \u201cWe arrest them all and question them. We will continue dismantling each one of those strongholds until we are done.\u201d <\/p>\n In a statement Thursday, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed said that\u00a0one of its correspondents and\u00a0several members of\u00a0his family were among those detained as part of the incident portrayed in the images. <\/p>\n \u201cToday, Thursday, the Israeli occupation army arrested the journalist and the director of \u2018The New Arab\u2019 office in Gaza, our colleague Diaa Al-Kahlot, from Market Street in Beit Lahia, along with a group of his brothers, relatives, and other civilians,\u201d\u00a0Al-Araby Al-Jadeed wrote. <\/p>\n \u201cThe occupation deliberately forced Gazans to take off their clothes, searched them, and humiliated them when they were arrested before taking them to an unknown destination, according to what the people there told us. Pictures and video clips spread showing soldiers arresting dozens of Gazans using criminal and humiliating method.\u201d <\/p>\n Hussam\u00a0Kanafani, the\u00a0Al-Araby Al-Jadeed\u00a0editor-in-chief, said in the statement that Al-Kahlot and his family were still missing. <\/p>\n \u201cWe will make every effort possible, in cooperation with international institutions and organizations concerned with the rights and freedom of journalists in the world, to determine the whereabouts of our colleague Diaa and release him as soon as possible,\u201d Kanafani said. <\/p>\n Al-Madhoun said he was in contact with his sister, who is in Gaza. <\/p>\n He said that he recognized his cousin Aboud in one of the photographs and saw his brother Mahmood in\u00a0a video. He said that Mahmoud is a shopkeeper and Aboud \u201cis not involved in any activities; he helps his father in construction.\u201d <\/p>\n This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed a mass detention by the Israeli military of men\u00a0who were made to strip to their underwear, kneel on the street, wear blindfolds, and pack into the cargo bed of a military vehicle. The exact circumstances\u00a0and dates\u00a0of the detentions\u00a0are unclear, but some of the detainees\u2019 identities were <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}