The occupation authorities "hide" thousands of Gazan workers in detention centers, and concentrate them in the open without water or food for two days, with their hands and feet shackled and blindfolded, before the difficult journey of the post begins. Degrading treatment of the elderly and continuous attacks.

The Israeli occupation authorities arrested thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip under inhumane conditions, even though they remained in Israel legally, on the eve of the attack on October 7, and before the start of the war launched by the occupation against the besieged Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday evening, Haaretz newspaper reported that the Gazan workers are being detained in detention centers at Israeli army bases in the occupied West Bank, under extremely difficult conditions and in violation of international humanitarian law, noting that they were working in Israel under a legal permit.

In the testimony of one of the detainees who were released, it was stated that the occupation authorities kept the workers in the open without food for two days, with their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded. Thousands of workers were later transferred to “cage-like facilities” and detained them in large numbers and with a high density, even though none of them were Suspected of any charge.

"Haaretz" said that the Israeli Ministry of Justice is "concerned" about the "inappropriate" detention conditions for the Gazan workers, and describes their situation as "extremely difficult," in conjunction with the petitions submitted by human rights organizations, earlier this week, to the Israeli Supreme Court, demanding "the extradition of... Names of detainees and informing their families of their whereabouts.”

The numbers revealed by Israeli media regarding the number of detainees vary, and range between 3,000 and 1,500 detainees.

The report stated that the government's deputy attorney general, Gail Lemon, contacted the Ministry of Security last week and "alerted it of the workers' conditions." Haaretz quoted informed sources as saying that Lemon called “a senior political-security official and asked him to deal with this issue,” while the Ministry of Security held deliberations on “the conditions of the workers’ imprisonment.”

Officials in the Ministry of Justice consider that responsibility in this file lies with officials in the Ministry of Security and the Israeli Army, and that the Ministry of Justice and the Public Prosecution are “awaiting the directives and decisions” of the Ministry of Security to “deal with this case,” while “Haaretz” quoted a senior security official that The occupation intends to "keep the workers in detention until they can be returned to Gaza."

The sane workers do not have access to their phones, none of them were allowed to meet with a lawyer, and the Red Cross was not allowed to visit them. The report noted that the occupation authorities worked to "disappear thousands of Gaza Strip residents who were residing here legally."

The report indicated that the fate of many workers is unknown, and explained that in one case of arrest, the occupation authorities arrested a Gazan worker at the Ni’lin checkpoint, when he tried to enter the West Bank; He was taken to a room where at least 100 other workers were detained for three hours, not allowed to use toilets and prevented from drinking water.

The detainees were also subjected to illegal procedures in transferring them from one detention center to another using the Busta buses of the occupation prisons service, noting that among the detainees there were elderly people, who were treated in an inhumane manner and insulted with insults, insults, and physical attacks.

One of the workers who was released said: “The bus passengers were handcuffed and taken to a military base. The soldiers there replaced the handcuffs on their hands with plastic ones, untied the detainees’ legs and covered their eyes. They were detained for two days in the sun, without water or food, and if you asked for something they would tell you 'Shut up you son of a bitch.'

Two days later, the detainees' handcuffs were removed, their blindfolds were removed, and they were transferred to a "cage-like compound or chicken coop with an area of approximately 300 square meters."

Katz calls for the "execution" of captured Qassam fighters

In a related context, the Israeli Minister of Energy, Yisrael Katz, called on Tuesday for the establishment of a special military court to “impose the death penalty” on those involved in the events of October 7. He said in a tweet on the “X” platform: “This evening I contacted Justice Minister Yariv Levin, with the aim of establishing a special military court that applies the law of crimes committed by Nazis and their associates against Hamas,” as he put it.

He added: "Death sentences will be imposed on those involved in the attack on the State of Israel on October 7." The occupation authorities announced that they arrested dozens of Palestinians in Israeli towns surrounding the Gaza Strip on October 7 and in subsequent days during clashes with fighters in the resistance factions.

Source: Arab 48