The Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, exposed in a report published yesterday how on Monday, 10 July 2023, at around 1:30 in the morning, dozens of masked soldiers, with dogs, entered homes belonging to the extended Ajlouni family in Hebron and forced five women to strip naked in front of their frightened children.
The soldiers, said the report, threatened, using their weapons, 26 members of the family who were home at the time and confined them to one of the apartments before they handcuffed three family members, one of them a 17-year-old boy, blindfolded them and took them to another apartment. They then separated the remaining men from the women and children, who were kept in the living room and searched them in a separate room.
‘The soldiers then took one woman to the room where her children, ranging in age from four to seven, were sleeping. The children woke up in fright. Two masked female soldiers kept the mother from going up to them and threatened to set the dog they had with them on her if she did not strip naked in front of them. The mother had no choice but to undress and turn around in front of the soldiers, and her frightened children, unclothed,’ said the report, which included testimonies from three women about their experience during the soldiers’ invasion of their house and privacy, and stealing their gold and money.
The report of stripping naked the women in Hebron drew strong Palestinian official and local criticism who denounced it pointing to Israel’s lack of moral values and decency.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA