Hexx wrote:In that note it seems Israel is now treating any military aged males in what it defines as zones Hamas fighters. After all civilians would have moved.
Yeah, images are spreading now, released by the IDF.
The first images of mass detentions emerged Thursday from the northern town of Beit Lahiya, showing dozens of men kneeling or sitting in the streets, stripped down to their underwear, their hands bound behind their backs. Some had their heads bowed. U.N. monitors said Israeli troops reportedly detained men and boys from the age of 15 in a school-turned-shelter.
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The London-based news outlet Al-Araby al-Jadeed, or The New Arab, said one of the men seen in the photos of the detainees is its Gaza correspondent Diaa al-Kahlout, and that he was rounded up with other civilians.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas ... e6f2ca6f38Photos in the link. They're in a video montage I can't directly post.
Clearly another violation of the Geneva Convention, this time on the treatment of prisoners.
A number of them have apparently since been released. If they were Hamas, as claimed, there's no way they'd have been let go. So, lies and propaganda, and civilian abduction, on top of the other human rights violations.