Two reservists brigades mobilised for Gaza missions while rows of tents put up in Khan Younis

Israel appears to be readying to send troops into Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, the only corner of the strip that has not seen fierce ground fighting and where more than half of the Palestinian territory’s population of 2.3 million has sought shelter.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that two reservist brigades had been mobilised for missions in Gaza, while video that circulated online appeared to show rows of square white tents going up in Khan Younis, 3 miles (5km) north of Rafah, which was decimated in a months-long Israeli air and ground campaign. A spokesperson for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government said Israel was “moving ahead” with a ground operation, but gave no timeline.

  • DdCno1
    -6•7 months ago

    Hamas have repeatedly demanded security guarantees for their leadership, not just a prisoner to hostage exchange. Hamas have demanded that captured October 7 terrorists be returned. It should be pretty obvious that Israel can not do either of those things. Hamas have also admitted that they don’t even know the whereabouts of all of their hostages. Survivors have described routine sexual abuse of female hostages in particular, which Hamas is particularly hesitant to release. Hamas have continuously made smaller proposals, which were then accepted by Israel, only for Hamas to then suddenly refuse to agree.

    But continue blaming Israel on this war that Hamas started and continues to escalate.

    • @Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•7 months ago

      You mean the tens of thousands Palestinian civilians that Israel captures, tries in a military court with no civil rights or representation, tortures into false confessions, and incarcerates with routine torture, sexual abuse, and denial of basic medical care? That includes hundreds if not thousands of children.

      Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B’TSelem)

      Children in the Israeli military detention system face inhumane treatment such as beatings, strip searches, psychological abuse, weeks in solitary confinement, and being denied access to a lawyer during interrogations, new research by Save the Children found.

      Save the Children consulted more than 470 children from across the West Bank who have been detained over the past ten years. The organisation found that the majority of children were taken from their homes at night, blindfolded, with their hands painfully bound behind their backs. Many of the respondents said were not told why they were being arrested or where they were going.

      Palestinian Prisoners in Israel including Child abuse - Save The Children

      According to the accounts of Palestinians who have undergone ISA interrogation, they are held in inhuman conditions, including narrow, windowless cells that are sometimes moldy and foul-smelling and are constantly lit with artificial lighting that is painful to the eyes. Some detainees reported being held in solitary confinement, completely cut off from their surroundings. Some reported exposure to extremes of heat and cold, as well as sleep deprivation. Many described abominable hygienic conditions; among other things, they stated that the prison authorities do not allow them to shower, change clothes, brush their teeth or even use toilet paper. The food is intentionally poor in quality and quantity, and detainees lose weight while in custody. In the interrogation room, they are forced to sit bound to a chair, without moving, for hours and even days on end. Interrogators threaten the detainees, including threats to harm their relatives, as well as shouting and employing violence against them.

      Torture and Abuse in Interrogations - B’TSelem

      Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy - NPR

      Urgently investigate inhumane treatment and enforced disappearance of Palestinians detainees from Gaza - Amnesty

      Amnesty International has for decades documented widespread torture by Israeli authorities in places of detention across the West Bank. However, over the past four weeks, videos and images have been shared widely online showing gruesome scenes of Israeli soldiers beating and humiliating Palestinians while detaining them blind-folded, stripped, with their hands tied, in a particularly chilling public display of torture and humiliation of Palestinian detainees.

      Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests