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The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF troops."
A statement from the IDF outlined There were soldiers at the school gate with tanks behind them, and more soldiers surrounding the place,
I fell to the ground. The men around tried to help me, but the soldiers shouted at them to leave me,
A soldier told us we’d be helping them with some missions and would be released after, but I was afraid they’d kill us at any moment,
The quadcopters instructed: ‘Men to the school gate, women and children in the schoolyard,
I was deeply worried about my wife and children. I didn’t know anything about them,
I was praying they wouldn’t recognise me,
At dawn, we heard [Israeli] tanks encircling the school, and quadcopters overhead began ordering everyone to get out,
Amal al-Masri, 30, who had given birth to her youngest daughter so recently she had not named her yet when the tanks came, recalled She started crying and calling, ‘Mama, please don’t leave me,’
Amal recounts, her voice shaking Each man was ordered to approach a board with a camera on it, one by one,
explains Yousef, who thinks the camera used facial recognition technology He randomly chose me and two other men; we didn’t understand why,
With all the dust, I stumbled, and my baby girl fell from my arms onto the ground,
Amal recalls, telling how she screamed and the older children cried when the baby fell They told us to walk out five at a time,
Amal said, describing how her 11-year-old daughter Tala was held back to join the group after her Buildings were being shelled all around us,
said Amal, who lived in a ground- floor classroom with her husband Yousef, 36, their five young children – Tala, Honda, Assad, and Omar, all aged between four and 11, and Yousef’s 62-year-old father Jamil The soldiers took us to an apartment in a nearby building,
The soldiers were shooting, throwing sound bombs, beating some of the men, torturing others,
I expected to be killed at any moment,
The team was made of civilians and worked in an area near a shelter on a mission sponsored by a charity. They were not in a prohibited area and didn't pose any danger of any kind to the occupation army,
Marouf said in a statement I did not allow them outside, but today I did. Why did they come out today?”
Umm Mahmoud Alerfan clutched her sons’ bodies and wailed This isn’t the first time they’ve targeted humanitarian workers and then leveled false accusations,
