The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor revealed today (Thursday) the involvement of Israeli officers in kidnapping infants from the Gaza Strip, demanding that Israel be obligated to return a Palestinian infant girl who was kidnapped by an Israeli officer from inside her home in the Gaza Strip after her family members were killed in an occupation forces raid.

The Observatory, which is based in Geneva, called on the international community to “oblige Israel to hand over the child whom the Israeli officer admitted to kidnapping, and whose fate or whereabouts are not known yet, and to reveal all cases of kidnapping and forcible transfer committed against Palestinian children, and hand them over to Their families immediately,” he estimated, estimating the number of children and women arrested by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip at about 200, out of more than 3,000 recorded cases of arrest.

The Observatory expressed its deep fear and concern that the baby’s incident was not an isolated case, pointing out that testimonies it had received indicated the detention and transfer of Palestinian children without knowing their later fate.

The Observatory confirmed that it does not have any official information about their detention sites or the conditions or charges against them, noting that there are no accurate statistics on the number of detainees from Gaza to this day, attributing this to incidents of arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance committed by the Israeli army inside the Strip, in addition to About the difficulty of receiving reports, due to the separation of families and the almost permanent interruption of communications and the Internet.

The PLO's Commission for Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club accused the Israeli authorities of arresting 51 Palestinian women from the Gaza Strip and placing them in Damon prison in northern Israel.

The Israeli army had provided information that contradicted the story of one of its soldiers regarding the kidnapping of a Palestinian infant from a home in the Gaza Strip, and said that after the examination conducted on the matter, no Palestinian infant had been taken from Gaza into Israel.

However, Israeli Army Radio quoted soldier Shahar Mendelsohn confirming the kidnapping incident, explaining that his friend, the officer in the Givati ​​Brigade, Harel Itach, who was killed in battles in northern Gaza on November 22, spoke to a friend during his period of service in the Strip about being in one of the houses. When he entered, he heard the sound of a baby crying, and decided to send her to Israel. The soldier did not explain the location of the house in which Itach found the Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip.