The video shows naked Palestinian men and at least two boys held by the IDF at Gaza Stadium
Excerpt from a video showing Palestinians being held by Israeli forces in a stadium in the northern Gaza Strip. (Source: Yosee Gamzoo Letova)
An edited video circulating on social media appears to show Palestinian men and at least two children being held and stripped naked by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a stadium in northern Gaza.
CNN was unable to verify when the video was recorded. A CNN geolocation of the video shows it was filmed at Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City.
CNN contacted the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday evening for comment on the video and the detained children but has not yet received a response. In the past, the IDF has said it stripped detainees naked to ensure they were not carrying explosives.
Hundreds of Palestinian men and boys have been arrested by Israeli forces in recent weeks.
In one of the images in the video, two young men, naked except for their underwear, are seen walking with their hands raised as the IDF directs them toward the stadium.
In another video, two young men appear to be seen naked, with their hands over their heads, lined up in a row with other men who appear to be teenagers and adults.
Throughout the video you can see men who are naked except for their underwear.
In some fragments, they sit on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, some blindfolded, and in single file as the IDF watches and inspects them.
Women and other detained children can also be seen in the video. In one shot, three fully clothed women are seen sitting on the grass in front of a soccer goal in the stadium, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their backs.
An Israeli flag hangs on the gate. Sitting next to the women are naked Palestinian men, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their backs.
In the video, military vehicles and excavators can be seen everywhere in the stadium.
The original video was uploaded to YouTube on December 24 by Yosee Gamzoo Letova, a photographer and artist, according to his Facebook profile.
The non-profit organization Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said it had received information that the Israeli army was detaining hundreds of Palestinians from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, including dozens of women who were taken to the stadium in Yarmouk.
“Palestinian men, including children as young as 10 and elderly people over 70, were forced to remove all their clothing except their underpants and stand in a humiliating line in front of women detained at the same stadium,” the rights organization said in a statement Explanation.
The organization calls on the international community to investigate the images of the arrest.