Why Can't Gazans Leave?

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There is probably a very simple answer to this that I missed in early news reports.

It's so awful watching News Feeds that essentially seem to say that Gazans are having to move around in a cat and mouse game with the IDF to avoid bombs but have nowhere left to go.

I am very aware that war has casualties and other countries are at war. I am not necessarily saying that IDF should stop fighting.

But this war is different in that all civilians seem to be trapped. Normally war creates refugees. Ukrainians, Afghans, Syrians - they were able to get out. Not all, I know, but movement was an option and it kept civilian casualties down. Why can't Gazans leave Gaza?

"The IDF forces arrested dozens of men in an operation in the Gaza Strip during the advance of the forces to occupy the north of the Gaza Strip. The goal is to check if some of them are Hamas terrorists or operatives in the terrorist organization"
https://twitter.com/kann_news
13.29

"Dozens of Palestinians were arrested, after turning themselves in in the northern Gaza Strip"
https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/643756/
16.23

Time flies

Multiple sources are saying these men were captured from a school shelter and they don't know what fate they have now. From the pictures above the shoes on the ground include flip flops and very casual shoes so highly doubt it is Hamas. Why would they surrender right now, it wouldn't make sense. God it keeps getting worse.

Wow Kan news cancelled that story quickly.

One of the persons from the group has been recognised as a journalist

Not surprised at all. This is classic Idf treatment of civilians in Palestine. The link below is from a few weeks ago in the west bank and I believe there was multiple incidents of the same nature.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/idf-settlers-alleged-to-bind-strip-beat-burn-and-pee-on-palestinians-in-w-bank/amp/

That photo is ominous. I'm disgusted by the way they strip people like this as well.

@stormy4319trevor really ominous! reminds me of Guantanamo or a concentration camp.

@paladium Or war time photos of people bound, stripped and kneeling. I wonder who these men are and what will happen to them after the photo moment has passed. We have probably all seen similar images and know they don't bode well.

@stormy4319trevor heartbreaking. Cruel, unnecessary, evil.

The BBC have reported on the images now

With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north, a video is circulating on social media, showing dozens of Palestinian men, stripped to their underwear, kneeling on the ground, being guarded by Israeli soldiers.
The men are thought to have been arrested in Beit Lahiya, in the far north of the Gaza Strip.
They appear to have been told to remove their shoes, which are seen scattered across the road.
Other images show them being transported in military trucks. In the Israeli media, the captives are being described as Hamas fighters who have surrendered.
The final image shows the men, bound and blindfolded, kneeling in a large area of bulldozed sand.
The Israeli army has not commented on the images, but already one well-known Palestinian journalist, Diaa Al-Kahlout, a correspondent for The New Arab, has been identified among those being held.
The New Arab said al-Kahlout had been arrested along with his brothers, relatives “and other civilians”.

It's worrying that nobody knows what has happened to them after the last image and there are no independent journalists to check either

There was a poet arrested in one of these roundups of men recently. I think he said they were taken to Beersheva prison? He said they were beaten and interrogated. He was let go, possibly because he is known by the American public as a writer and there were protests about him being held. I think he didn't know what happened to the others.

@stormy4319trevor not only men but reports of women too
Some of the detainees who were released in the recent truce have reported that there are women from Gaza being held there in terrible conditions

The Israeli Prison Service have refused to disclose how many Gazans are being held in israeli prisons

@Parkingt111 Oh yes, I remember hearing about women from Gaza being held too, leaving children behind as well.

I thought there were laws about the treatment of prisoners pf war, and that stripping and beating them would be against those laws. But there's no comment about it from international organisations,

Further update on those images and in particular about the journalist who was spotted in them from the BBC

The news outlet Al-Araby al-Jadeed has condemned what it describes as the "humiliating" detention of its Gaza correspondent Diaa Kahlout by Israeli forces earlier today.
In a statement, it said Kahlout's brothers, relatives and a large number of civilians were also detained by the Israeli forces in Beit Lahia, a city in the north of Gaza.
It adds soldiers forced them "to disrobe, and subjected them to invasive searches and humiliating treatment upon their arrest, prior to transporting them to undisclosed locations".
The outlet "urges the international community, journalists’ rights defenders and watchdogs, and human rights bodies to denounce this ongoing assault" by Israel on journalists in the territory.

No, this is absolutely not true ! The IDF have been rounding up all men and boys over 15, stripping them and kidnapping or executing them. They consist of doctors, lawyers, bakers, journalists etc. just normal men and young boys, this is a war crime !!
They are not Hamas, they are rounding them up from refugee centres, they are wearing sandals and sliders, no combat boots or uniforms to be seen. Do you not think if they were Hamas, they would show them in combat gear ??

Just putting this here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/israel-strikes-back-after-massive-palestinian-attack

Check out the guy standing on top of the tank to the left - SANDALS and no uniforms to be seen.

Disgusting pro-Hamas propaganda on this site.

What a horrible comment

As all know Hamas and ISIS are well known for suicide bombing. It is very wise of the Israeli soldiers to ensure the terrorists remove their clothing so they can be sure no weapons are there. Israel is doing a very difficult job very well.

Commenting on the bodies of men forced to strip and subjected to invasive body searches. Contributing to their humiliation. There really aren't words for that.

Meanwhile, you are an apologist for Israeli warcrimes and the mass killing of babies and children. If you support this, you have no humanity.

What a horrible thing to say
Do you often body shame people?