Minister of Social Development, Ahmed Majdalani, said that the detention of 142 women and their infants by the occupation forces from Gaza is a new crime added to the series of occupation crimes, calling on the international community and international institutions to take immediate action to pressure the release of them and their infants.

Majdalani pointed out that the occupation forces detained women hostage in unknown places, after they were randomly collected from the roads and shelter centers, pointing out that they were subjected to humiliation, threats of rape and strip search, and beating of pregnant women. Pointing out that the level of fears about the fate of detained women is increasing day after day.

Majdalani added, in a press statement today, that the Israeli occupation is carrying out horrific and terrible crimes against Gazan detainees, in addition to its refusal to reveal their fate, in terms of their numbers, places of detention, and their health condition.

Majdalani renewed his appeal for the necessity of urgent international intervention to force the occupying state to stop its devastating war on the Gaza Strip and the crimes of ethnic cleansing against our people, which exceeded all international norms and conventions and the most basic rights.

He stressed that the crimes of genocide committed by the occupation are a crime that exceeds all international standards and laws, by killing children, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities, and represents a desecration of the sanctity of life and the concept of humanity, and a violation of the most basic laws of humanitarian conflicts and respect for the weak, and more than that, it represents a brutal and obscene transgression of red lines.