With a trembling hand and his heart racing, Ibrahim Alloush, a Palestinian man from Jabalia, was forced to hold a glow stick by an Israeli investigator to flee to Gaza City after hours of being roughly interrogated and beaten.
The 22-year-old man and his family were forced to leave Jabalia camp after surviving more than 40 days of an Israeli siege and Israeli bombardment of the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.
“We tried to stay in our home despite all the bombing, destruction, fear and terror. We did not want to be displaced and leave our property. We were innocent civilians and hoped to spend the rest of our lives in our house,” he said to The New Arab.
Alloush and his ten-member family tried to endure the subsequent Israeli assaults against them, including starvation and lack of water and medicine. However, the Israeli army stormed the neighbourhood and demanded all the civilians to leave immediately otherwise they would kill all of them, which prompted Alloush and his family to surrender.
After taking off their clothes, the army ordered the Palestinian men to move towards a school while raising their hands over their heads. ….more
