Gazan from Beit Lahia tells Al Mayadeen details of IOF treatment

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
10 Dec 2023 15:57

A Palestinian refugee recounted to Al Mayadeen details of the Israeli blockade imposed on displaced families in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, along with the arrest operation that targeted dozens of civilian youths.

Displaced Palestinians walk inside a UN-run school, Gaza Strip, on Monday, November 27, 2023. (AP)

A Palestinian refugee recounted to Al Mayadeen details of the Israeli blockade imposed on displaced families in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, along with the arrest operation that targeted dozens of civilian youths.

She revealed that the occupation forces raided the vicinity of the Khalifa school where she took shelter, and ordered the women, through loudspeakers, to descend to the al-Qassam square in the building. The IOF then proceeded to detain all males over the age of 14 years old, adding that they were left exposed to the cold alongside their children, with no water, food or something to cover up with.

Israeli military tanks and snipers surrounded them as well, the woman said.

She recounted that among the males detained, only 10% were returned to Beit Lahia, while the rest are still detained and their fate remains unknown.

🇵🇸🇮🇱‼️🚨 The IOF continues to besiege and bomb the vicinity of the Khalifa School in Beit Lahia, northern #Gaza, which houses 3,000 displaced Gazans.

Dozens of martyrs and wounded are trapped in the school due to the intensity of fire.

Moments ago, the IOF demanded all men… pic.twitter.com/fEpYEeZPQx
— Vigilante (@Vigilante2801) December 9, 2023

One of the boys who was later released from Israeli detention recalled to Al Mayadeen that Khalifa bin Zayed School, which shelters thousands of displaced Palestinians, has been surrounded by Israeli tanks and vehicles from all directions since yesterday. The Israeli forces stormed the school, forced all the displaced people inside it to go outside, and arrested dozens of young men.

He added that northern Gaza lacks all standard components of life, including food and water, pointing out the suffering of Palestinians in the region, especially as the weather gets colder.

'Israel' detains children

Yesterday, Palestinian media reported, citing local sources, wide-scale raids carried out by the Israeli occupation forces across the cities and refugee camps of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces arrested Palestinian youth Youssef al-Khatib, during an incursion into the city of Areeha in the West Bank. It's noteworthy that al-Khatib had been released as part of the recent prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation that took place during the seven-day truce.

Later, media confirmed the release of al-Khatib, who was physically assaulted by the occupation forces.

Israeli occupation forces raided Nablus from the al-Tur neighborhood and the al-Yasmeena neighborhood in the old town of Nablus, as well as the town of Qabalan to its south and arrested Mohammad Talal, from the town of Yatma south of Nablus, after storming and searching his family home.

'Israel' kills children

In the early morning hours of Sunday, an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians and injuring dozens more.

Medical sources reported that most of the martyrs were children and that a number of people were declared missing after the targeting of the Abdel Wahab Ghoreibi family house.

A recent report by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor shows that "Israel" has killed more than 10,000 children and infants since the onset of aggression against the Gaza Strip on the seventh of October.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that the total death toll in the Israeli airstrikes and intensive artillery attacks has exceeded 23,012, including 9,077 children and infants, according to preliminary statistics.

As hundreds of children remain under the rubble after weeks of unsuccessful rescue attempts, the total number of child casualties will likely exceed 10,000, the Monitor explained.