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The Palestinian family 'executed' in their home by Israeli forces
Trapped in Gaza City’s Shaikh Ridwan neighbourhood, the Palestinian al-Khaldi family rushed to the ground floor of their home as Israeli forces bombed nearby, thinking that would be the safest spot.
An Israeli air strike then hit the house next door around 1pm on Thursday, killing some of the neighbours and wounding Fatima al-Khaldi, a mother of two.
But it was too late at that point to flee or attempt to reach the hospital, as Israeli tanks encircled the area and soldiers were getting closer.
The house was sheltering around 30 people, including some who were displaced earlier in the war from other parts of the city.
At around 8pm, Israeli soldiers arrived.
Trapped in Gaza City’s Shaikh Ridwan neighbourhood, the Palestinian al-Khaldi family rushed to the ground floor of their home as Israeli forces bombed nearby, thinking that would be the safest spot.
An Israeli air strike then hit the house next door around 1pm on Thursday, killing some of the neighbours and wounding Fatima al-Khaldi, a mother of two.
But it was too late at that point to flee or attempt to reach the hospital, as Israeli tanks encircled the area and soldiers were getting closer.
The house was sheltering around 30 people, including some who were displaced earlier in the war from other parts of the city.
At around 8pm, Israeli soldiers arrived.
There, his uncle Mohammed was shocked to hear that the young boy needed six surgical operations, which doctors at the hospital - destroyed earlier by Israeli forces - did not have the resources to perform.
Faisal’s intestine and bladder were ruptured and he remains in critical condition at al-Shifa, according to Fahed.
“I posted many appeals on social media and through journalists and tried to contact the International Committee of the Red Cross to move Faisal to another hospital in the south but all that went in vain,” he said.
“All we want now is to urgently treat Faisal.”
Field executions
Two days after the horrifying encounter, Mohammed went back to the area after Israeli forces withdrew.
He counted the bodies of nine people in the house, including Ahmed, Fatima, his elderly blind uncle, his wife and others.
The story of the al-Khaldi family was confirmed by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which says it has documented many similar field executions by Israeli forces in recent days.
The killings are taking place in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip - areas placed under a media blackout and cut off by Israeli soldiers from access to hospitals and basic needs.
Now as Israeli troops retreat from some locations, surviving residents are revealing details of the shocking crimes committed against them.
The Palestinian government media office on Saturday said it had received testimonies about at least 137 Palestinians executed by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip.
In some cases, groups of people were lined up in a pit dug by Israeli forces, before being shot and then buried in mass graves, the media office said.
Other instances included the killing of pregnant women walking to the hospital and waving white flags, as well as men shot and killed in front of their families.
The Euro-Med Monitor said it has documented at least nine different instances where groups of civilians were shot and killed without posing a threat to Israeli forces.
Middle East Eye could not independently verify these claims.
However, the Israeli army admitted earlier this month to killing three Israeli captives in Gaza who were shirtless, waving a white flag, and calling for help in Hebrew.
Last week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it “received disturbing information” about one of the cases of alleged summary executions.
The killings were confirmed, the UN agency said, but verification of the circumstances were still under way.
“The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to be substantiated, those responsible must be brought to justice,” OHCHR said in a statement.
It added that the occurence of killings “raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime” and comes “in the wake of earlier allegations concerning the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians at the hands of Israeli forces”.
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War on Gaza: Israeli forces round up stripped Palestinian men and children at stadium
Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinians in an open field of a stadium in Gaza on Monday, stripping them and tying their hands behind their backs, according to photos and video footage shared on local media.
Reports said Israeli forces had abused the residents, including men, children and the elderly, before gathering them in the open field.
Video footage showed Israeli soldiers, accompanied by tanks, pointing their guns at the detained Palestinians who could be seen entering the field in a line with their hands up in the air before sitting down in designated areas.
The video ends with a shot of an Israeli soldier carrying a baby, wrapped in blanket.
The video, reportedly taken by an Israeli photojournalist, shows how Israeli forces have transformed the stadium into a large detention
centre.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on 20 December that Israeli army forces have been carrying out field executions against civilians, after detaining them from their homes.
The rights monitor obtained testimonies of Israeli army forces raiding homes and opening fire at Palestinians for no reason.
Euro-Med Monitor said it also received similar testimonies about atrocities committed by Israeli forces in numerous areas they occupied, including killings and field executions.
Civilians stripped and detained
Earlier this month, the Israeli military said it was rounding up Palestinian men in northern Gaza for interrogation. Footage released at the time showed dozens of men stripped of their clothes, blindfolded, and with their hands tied, being taken to an undisclosed location.
A witness said at least seven men had been shot dead by troops for not complying with the soldiers’ orders fast enough, according to the Euro-Med Monitor.
The men had been reportedly rounded up from homes and schools sheltering displaced families in the northern Gaza Strip.
Euro-Med Monitor said doctors, academics, journalists and seniors were among them. Diaa al-Kahlout, a journalist working for the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet, was identified as one of the detained men.
Some videos showed them in a residential area before being loaded onto trucks. Another photo showed them lined up in an open sandy area. It was not clear where they were taken to.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the mass arrests.
Some Israeli media said the men are “possible” Hamas operatives but no further details were provided.
Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, denied that there had been mass arrests of the group’s members and likened the arrests to "Nazi concentration camps".
He told Al Araby TV that the footage shows the “arrest and abuse of unarmed civilians who have nothing to do with military operations”.
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