The UN considers “very worrying” the images that were leaked this Thursday of dozens of Palestinian men detained in Gaza and half-naked, while they are watched by members of the Israeli Army who surround them.
“The images are very worrying because everyone has the right to human dignity,” the spokesman for the General Secretariat, Stéphane Dujarric, said in his daily press conference.
The images are part of a video that shows around a hundred Palestinian adults in underwear and mostly bare-chested, sitting on the ground on a street that appears to be in Gaza because it has signs of having been bombed.
Some of them are getting into a truck, and in fact another later photograph shows Israeli military trucks transporting dozens of men piled up and without clothes in their trailers.
A third photograph shows what appears to be the same group, kneeling on the ground and blindfolded, with Israeli soldiers in field uniforms around them, on sandy ground that appears to have been disturbed by bulldozers.
EFE consulted the Israeli Army about these images, which promised to provide details on the matter.
Some images were commented on by local journalists from the Strip, who stated that they correspond to civilians captured in Gaza towns such as Beit Lahia.
The photographs and videos, without verification by independent sources, show, according to Israeli media, military checkpoints of the Israeli forces in search of possible “terrorists.”
To giustificare questi orrori dicono che sono prigionieri di #Hamas. But direct testimonies say that they are defenseless civilians and even journalists. And they document it too. You suck and you should be ashamed. Ma come si può davianti a tutto ciò raccontare un mare di menzogne? pic.twitter.com/JQvJUpCuKk
— Giuseppe Salamone (@gius_salamone90) December 7, 2023
The dead in Gaza exceed 17,000 and the wounded are more than 46,000, according to the Ministry of Health of France, since the start of Israel's offensive against the Islamist group Hamas, last October 7.
The war broke out after a Hamas attack on Israel that day, with more than 1,200 dead and more than 240 kidnapped in Gaza.
The internally displaced in Gaza are almost 1.9 million, around 80% of its population of about 2.3 million inhabitants, with a serious humanitarian crisis.
Mind-altering images: Dozens of Gazan detainees, possibly Hamas terrorists, were captured or surrendered, despite the pledge “We will not raise a white flag, we will not surrender.”
Alongside the photographing of Hamas' northern headquarters in the tunnels, the disclosure of the receipts for Haniya's son, the occupation of Palestine Square in Gaza, all of these change consciousness. pic.twitter.com/gWADK72o9P— Baruch Yedid (@BaruchYedid) December 7, 2023