Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.

  • @Visstix
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    182 months ago

    What do you think of that mass grave the Israelis put at a hospital and won’t let anyone investigate?

    • VoxClamans
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      -72 months ago

      @Visstix
      beware of info from the Middle East, I’ve seen a lot of fakes and disinformation (as much as by putinists about the war in Ukraine, or trumpists about their Führer … and his opponents).
      Now let’s suppose there is a mass grave. Only one? In a reduced war zone, overpopulated? Man, if they didn’t want what a war means (hint: it’s always atrocious), WHY they did attack Israel, committed hundreds of assassinations, took hostages and killed some?! Did they really believe they could get free?

      • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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        42 months ago

        The reporters, women, children, and noncombatants, the thousands, didn’t do anything on October 7th.

        Regardless of whatever pain and hurt you’re carrying, are innocent lives worth the cost to you? The Israelis attacked on October 7th were innocent civilians (they live under the rule of a terrorist, just as much as Gazans do with Hamas), do you believe they would want this bloodshed and violence?