Pictures on social media show dozens of men in their underwear being guarded by Israeli troops in north Gaza.
With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.
And they still call themselves democratic country. Very democratic of them to humiliate human beings whose only fault is that they are of "military age" and not evacuated to the south. Apparently for Israel all males in Gaza are guilty until proven otherwise.
That's how war works. You think it's all hugs and love in a war? What if one of them have a suicide bomb belt? You might want to look into how US army treats the locals in Iraq war. Every war has war crimes(so far I don't see any committed by Israel). Every war has civilian casualties. Some people are fixated on civilians death from bombings. Well, if they are bombing Hamas targets and there are civilians, that's just how any country would have done it. US did the same. Any country would do the same. So let's get off your high horse and start criticizing both sides. I haven't heard any liberals pointing finger at the Hamas. It's sickening.
That other countries would do it too does in no way make it morally justified, it just makes those countries monstrous as well.
Hamas are horrible terrorists. There, your first liberal pointing a finger at Hamas. Now, consider what the point of critique is. Will Hamas ever care about western criticism? No. Will Israel ever care? Maybe. They depend on Western support in their political and economic stability. Therefore continued scrutiny and criticism of Israel has a chance of actually making a difference.
Oh hey, sure. I can tell you exactly how we did it in Iraq. On both counts. So when you first make contact with the person you're going to detain you have them stop at a distance. Then someone with a thermal sight looks at them through the sight and it's readily apparent if they have a bomb vest on. I mean there's no chance of not seeing it. But it could be something like a money belt or an armor vest. So you have them disrobe if, and only if, the guy with the thermal sight says it needs to happen. At that point if it is a vest and they're cooperative it's an EOD problem. If they aren't cooperative, well that sucks.
The key thing here though, is in the 99.9 percent of cases it's not a vest, or there was no positive indication, they keep their fucking clothes. Just like your local PD is capable of searching you without stripping you, so is your friendly neighborhood infantry platoon.
Now about bombing. Before you can drop any ordinance you have to first answer a few questions.
*Is this structure currently being used by the enemy?
*Are there signs of civilians, or is it somewhere we would reasonably expect them to be? (Such as an apartment)
*Is this structure on the protected targets list? (Oh yeah we spent time creating lists of things not to shoot at if possible.)
If the answer is yes to the first and any of the others we then also need to figure out if it rises to a level where bombing it is appropriate. For example, bombing an apartment building because there's 12 guys there is a war crime. But if there's a Battalion dug in there, then yeah it's legitimate.
What Israel has been doing is scanning satellite and drone footage for anything that looks like it could be the entrance hatch to a tunnel and bombing that. No matter where it is and with no evidence as to whether it's a maintenance tunnel or the yet to be found super secret bad guy hang out. If I did that in Iraq I'd have been brought up on charges. They tried to bring me up on charges for firing a warning shot. So please tell me more about how, this is just the way it's done. I'll be over here shining my CIB, waiting for the answer.
Oh the mental equilibristics to try to excuse war crimes and clear dehumanization from Israel. Seriously you should ask what kind of a person you are if you defend them.
And they still call themselves democratic country. Very democratic of them to humiliate human beings whose only fault is that they are of “military age” and not evacuated to the south.
What exactly do you think democracy means and why does this run contrary to it? Democratic countries go to war all the time, especially when attacked. Perhaps this is about disarming and searching potential hostiles and not humiliation.
Apparently for Israel all males in Gaza are guilty until proven otherwise.
In the evacuation zone? Yes, and they have stated as such, everyone there will be considered a potential enemy combatant.
'Evacuation zone' aka these peoples homes and communities, where many other civilians need rescue and aid. No no please keep supporting the idea that 2 million people can just move to an undeveloped plain and have all aid including food, water and shelter withheld. Collective punishment is a war crime.
everyone there will be considered a potential enemy combatant.
Israel thinks its god, doesn't it? Announces a military zone anywhere at all, then shoots people there right and left. What we have left is entire families wiped out, and 7k dead children, and a few thousands that are so traumatized and radicalized now that Israel has effectively set the stage for the rise of the next Hamas.
Thank you Israel 👏 you have indeed saved us all 👏 👏 /s
You got the Christo-Con old guard Republicans who will drop to their knees at the drop of a hat to suck the nearest Israeli's dick. They make up majority of the over-60s, which is frankly a pretty major segment of the Republicans. These are the guys who will automatically side with our greatest ally regardless of context.
Trump-leaning but not fanatical Republicans tend to be pro-Zionism or at the very least they are neutral to it. I feel like this group is exceedingly small.
But MAGA-ers? It's hard to place them. You get a mix bag of hardcore Zionists, white nationalists, libertarians who are against the funding, it's all over the fucking place.
I do feel like Zionism is dropping among Republicans year by year.
They haven't lost anything. They have the full support of almost the entirety of the US government, hence the $100+ billion in additional funding on top of the billions they already receive every single year. Although the tides are changing, they're changing so slowly that any trace of Palestine will likely be wiped off the map long before the possibility of a majority Palestinian-favoring congress ever forms. Israel are accelerating their ethnic cleansing efforts to ensure this.
You are in fact supposed to give them their clothes back after you make sure there's nothing bad in them. This kind of humiliation is a form of torture.
Before someone asks, I'm pretty sure they aren't going anywhere with hoods and cuffs on.
With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.
Asked about the video, a spokesman for the Israeli government told the BBC the men detained were all of military age and had been "discovered in areas that civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks ago".
In the video, dozens of men are lined up on a pavement and appear to have been told to remove their shoes, which are scattered across the road.
Another image - which has not yet been verified by the BBC - shows men blindfolded, kneeling in what appears to be a large pit of bulldozed sand.
On Friday, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy told the BBC the men had been detained in Jabalia and Shejaiya in northern Gaza, which he described as "Hamas strongholds and centres of gravity".
It added that soldiers forced the men to remove their clothes and "subjected them to invasive searches and humiliating treatment upon their arrest, prior to transporting them to undisclosed locations".
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The IDF actually staged a video where they forced one guy in his underwear to hold a gun and put it down somewhere as to pretend that they were combatants...
Even if it wasn't staged, are they "Hamas fighters" for owning rifles? I don't see any of the missles and weapons Hamas are known to own and produce. This is even less stuff than they "found" in the MRI machine in that hospital after all those people they killed.
Israeli citizens and namely settlers have been getting licenses for weapons since October 7th. This is, of course, totally acceptable because they're Israelis and Jews.
Anyone else doing that is a terrorist and must be neutralized, alongside every member of their families 🙄
And if all of this is a security concern, why did they even publish such pictures that clearly give them really bad PR?
Bravo, Israel, you are just showing us you're willing to go full Satan.
If he was holding the gun while he was surrendering him it would be justified, which is what they're seemingly trying to stage in this video.
The problem is that the man got the gun in one hand in one video, the gun is then in his other hand in the next video, which proves it was a retake of the same act.
They quickly deleted the second Twitter video in classic IDF fashion when they see they leaked propaganda evidence.
And somehow he's allowed to have a gun while being in his underwear...
Fighting age men, in groups, in an active combat zone, when everyone else is evacuated. 🤔
The IDF showed restraint and it's interesting to see the pro-hamas crowd trying to spin this as bad.
Honestly given what you can see a better headline for this would be, 'Hamas unit with embedded journalist throws down weapons and surrenders to IDF after realising Hamas actually is just trying to kill Palestinians for propaganda'
Who said that? Are you quoting yourself? IDF has been clear they will attack Hamas wherever they are found, even in the south. The evacuation zone is where they will consider those who remain potential enemy combatants and where the heaviest bombing is.
Civilians, most likely. Why, are you okay with treating ANY human being like this?
But of course the IDF won't say who they are or why they are holding them in this position that with all honestly invokes images similar to the holocaust or some other fucked up human tragedy.
Edit: I think your comment is quite shameful. It is an attempt at excusing Israel's humiliating treatment of Palestinians. If you read the article, these people were arrested for simply being men and for being in the North of Gaza... And yeah, you'll probably think anyone in the north deserves to die after Israel told people to evacuate... Even though it bombed them in the North and South and in their homes and shops and streets and everywhere they go. Fuck Israel. Zionism is facism. This is facism. And supporting it is supporting a Hiterly figure who dehumanized Palestinians like Hitler dehumanized Jews. When I see someone see these images and still excuse the crimes of Israel, it makes me hate living in this world.
What makes you assume they are civilians, and shouldn't this be verified? That's the nature of war; It seems provoking one wasn't the best idea. Strip searching them and arresting them is pretty humane considering the alternatives.
Ya they are men from Palestine. Doesn't make them Hamas because I doubt the IDF are taking prisoners of war. They bomb hospitals and refugee camps. Taking a enemy combatant alive isn't their MO.
One of the men identified as having been detained is a well-known Palestinian journalist, leading his employers to accuse Israel of carrying out "invasive searches and humiliating treatment" of civilians.
"We're talking about military age men who were discovered in areas that civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks ago," he said.
Mr Levy added that they would be questioned to "work out who indeed was a Hamas terrorist and who is not".
He emphasised the detained men had been found in areas where Israeli forces had engaged in "close-quarter combat" with Hamas. They had been "deliberately disguising themselves as civilians" and operating from civilian buildings.
They found them in an active war zone where they said anyone remaining would be considered a potential enemy combatant. They didn't shoot them, instead they arrested them to determine who is a hostile. I guess the IDF is damned if they do and damned if they don't.