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A mother forced to watch her sons being ordered to strip naked by Israeli soldiers and then being arbitrarily mass arrested

No.

27899

Date

29 February, 2024

Found by

@el_sabawi

Original Social Media Post

"It is with a heavy heart that I (& my cousin @yasmineelsabawi) translated this interview my mother's cousin did for Al Arabiya. She details her harrowing experience of watching her sons being ordered to strip naked by Israeli soldiers and then being arbitrarily mass arrested, along with all of the other young men who were sheltering in the UNWRA school in Khan Yunis. She cries for her boys. She just wants her boys back. 1/n🧵" - Source

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Archivist Notes On This Video

On February 26, IDF just raided an UNWRA school that was sheltering hundreds, including my second cousins in Khan Yunis. All of the women & children were ordered to leave at gunpoint, and all of the men & teenage boys were detained by IDF.

❗️No one knows where IDF has taken my 2nd cousins. Like thousands of Palestinian men, they are being stripped, blindfolded, & treated like cattle instead of the human beings that they are. ❗️IDF has established a pattern of stripping, humiliating, and otherwise torturing civilian men (and women) (see sources). We must demand that @POTUS and members of Congress pressure Israel to STOP VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS by arbitrarily engaging in mass arrests of civilian populations. It is a violation of the Rome Statute: 🔴 to refuse to provide information about the whereabouts of detainees 🔴 to arbitrarily engage in mass arrests 🔴 to engage in mass arrests based on gender 🔴 to refuse to provide individuals with access to legal counsel 🔴 to engage in practices designed to humiliate & violate the dignity of those detained Enough is Enough. We DEMAND you release our families!

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