Palestinians demand Israel give news of detained Gazans

Following Hamas strikes, the Israeli military is said to have detained around 100 individuals in Gaza, and the Palestinian authorities have demanded that information about them be made public.

Qaddura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s commission for prisoners, stated on Sunday that he had received a report from Israeli officials stating that their side had made 105 arrests.

However, he claimed that there was “no detail about what has become of these people” and that Israel had not made the number publicly known.

The Israeli military told AFP on Monday that it could not comment on the issue at this stage.

Israel launched bombardments and a ground offensive in Gaza after the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants who killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials.

Hamas says the Israeli offensive has killed nearly 15,000 people, mostly civilians. The bombardments have flattened homes and displaced 1.7
million of Gaza’s 2.4 million people, according to the United Nations.

Following Hamas strikes, the Israeli military is said to have detained around 100 individuals in Gaza, and the Palestinian authorities have demanded that information about them be made public.

Qaddura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s commission for prisoners, stated on Sunday that he had received a report from Israeli officials stating that their side had made 105 arrests.

However, he claimed that there was “no detail about what has become of these people” and that Israel had not made the number publicly known.

“He was freed after nine days” after “undergoing torture,” Awwad said.
OCHA said families had been separated by Israeli forces at a checkpoint on the Salah al-Din road.

One child “had to cross through the checkpoint on his own following his father’s arrest,” it said.