> Among the most egregious cases are those of an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s jailed for six weeks and of a single mother separated from her young children. When the mother was released after 53 days she found the children begging on the streets.
> At that point in May Israel had detained 6,000 people under its “unlawful combatants” legislation, which allows indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial, official data released after legal appeals showed.
> “I remember [the 82-yo woman with Alzheimer's] limping badly toward the clinic. And she’s classified as an unlawful combatant. The way that label is used is insane,” the medic said. Photographs confirm his presence at Anatot at the time.
The indefinite detention under dubious justifications without charge or trial. Such a profound violation of human rights and dignity, but it's OK, because they're "animals".
NomDePlum•2h ago
The other issue is that someone working for the local government (Hamas) in 2023 or after, is often treated by the IDF as being a combatant. So even the claimed combatant numbers will include those from the cleansing department or local civilian police and many others in civilian and necessary jobs.
JumpCrisscross•2h ago
> someone working for the local government (Hamas) in 2023 or after, is often treated by the IDF as being a combatant
To be fair, guilty-until-proven-innocent for card-carrying affiliates is deeply precedented during wartime. (Though I'm not sure how we'd classify e.g. a janitor on a military base, casualty-wise.)
Jailing elderly single mothers who haven't been charged with a crime is not. It's important to distinguish between these because while both are horrible, one departs from the way the great powers have fought modern wars.
hebelehubele•2h ago
> At that point in May Israel had detained 6,000 people under its “unlawful combatants” legislation, which allows indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial, official data released after legal appeals showed.
> “I remember [the 82-yo woman with Alzheimer's] limping badly toward the clinic. And she’s classified as an unlawful combatant. The way that label is used is insane,” the medic said. Photographs confirm his presence at Anatot at the time.
The indefinite detention under dubious justifications without charge or trial. Such a profound violation of human rights and dignity, but it's OK, because they're "animals".
NomDePlum•2h ago
JumpCrisscross•2h ago
To be fair, guilty-until-proven-innocent for card-carrying affiliates is deeply precedented during wartime. (Though I'm not sure how we'd classify e.g. a janitor on a military base, casualty-wise.)
Jailing elderly single mothers who haven't been charged with a crime is not. It's important to distinguish between these because while both are horrible, one departs from the way the great powers have fought modern wars.