January
5, 2024
In
early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men
in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to
their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put
into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of
these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security
officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without
notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts. Some of them never
returned.
