GENEVA — The
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has
issued a statement urging Israel to disclose the whereabouts of nearly 3,000
Palestinian civilians, including children and dozens of women, reportedly
kidnapped from homes and shelter centers in the Gaza Strip. The organization
calls on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to end its
alleged policy of enforced disappearance.
اضافة اعلان
In recent days,
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) detained
hundreds of Palestinians, including women, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in
Gaza City. Women taken to
Yarmouk Stadium were subjected to searches, removal
of veils, explicit abuse, beatings, and harassment. Palestinian males,
including children as young as 10 and elderly individuals over 70, were
reportedly forced to strip down to their underwear in a humiliating manner.
The human rights organization highlights that similar
inhumane treatment has been inflicted on additional civilians arrested in
Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza, and in neighborhoods east of
Gaza City.
Euro-Med Monitor gathered information from testimonies and video clips,
indicating that the IOF used explosive methods during raids, storming homes,
and shelters to shoot and kill inhabitants without apparent reason. Survivors
are then forced out, with men compelled to strip naked while women undergo
searches and harassment. Furthermore, the organization received testimonies
that female detainees were threatened with rape.
Additionally, the IOF has allegedly published footage and
photos depicting Palestinian detainees, both male and female, in degrading
conditions, aiming to dehumanize them and strip away their dignity. They are
also denied access to lawyers and visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The random arrest campaign targets various professionals,
including doctors, nurses, journalists, teachers, engineers, human rights
defenders, and workers in humanitarian organizations, Euro-Med Monitor
highlights, emphasizing that the IOF actions in the strip meet the criteria for
enforced disappearances.
The organization calls on the ICRC and the UN Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention to pressure Israeli authorities to reveal the fate of
detainees, release them, and investigate alleged severe violations, reminding
states that enforced disappearance is a crime punishable under the 2006
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, and considered a crime against humanity when carried out
extensively or systematically.
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